17 A Taste for the Abject

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgment ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Indigeneity and Foodways
6. Foodland Security 31
7. What Can We Learn from Dining with Bears? 37
8. Changing Tides 57
9. Terra Nullius on the Plate 77
10. From Meat to Metaphor 93
11. (Sub)Urban/Rural Imaginations
12. Montreal in the Culinary Imagination 117
13. Creating Contemporary Canadian Agri-Art 146
14. Food, Place, and Power in Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park 162
15. Plot 183
16. A Case Study on Ghost River Theatre’s Food Performance 200
17. Culinary Lineages
18. Chewed a Book Lately? 213
19. Phototextual Remembering in Janice Wong’s Chow: From China to Canada: Memories of Food + Family 241
20. The Royal Cafe Experience 263
21. Writing beyond “Currybooks” 277
22. Playing with Food 295
23. Subverting Categories
24. Breaking Bread 311
25. A Taste for the Abject 333
26. “Viciousness in the Kitchen” 348
27. Table of Contents 364
28. A MEAT/MEETing in the Park 376
29. Figures 391
30. Contributors 397
31. Index 403