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This course focuses on texts about food, featuring novels, poetry, memoirs, and films that depict eating, cooking, kitchens, and restaurant work. Course discussions and assignments will help students develop and hone various reading strategies and textual analysis skills. We will consider how our foodways and our relationships to them characterize our cultures and ourselves, thinking through issues of home, family, labor, and migration among others. Course readings may include memoirs like Diana Abu-Jaber’s The Language of Baklava, novels like Tsetse Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, and films like The Lunchbox and Kings of Pastry. Gen Ed Competency: Think Aesthetically