Apr 8, 2023 9:30 - 11:00 am
The ARC Instructional Kitchen (limited spaces)
- Sponsor
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
- Contact
- Alejandra Simonovich-Seufferheld
- amsseu@illinois.edu
- Views
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- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
Food and Culture in Latin America: The Case of Chocolate, Dr Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese). With the arrival of the Spaniards to the Americas, food became an instrument of survival and a tool to impose social hierarchies. However, the new environment and their daily contact with indigenous societies transformed how Spaniards thought about food.