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Ethnodelicious: Mediatized Culinary Anthropology and the Mediation of Global Food Cultures

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This chapter examines the mediation of global food cultures through a case study of the food media of Dorinda Hafner, the first black TV cook to reach the status of global celebrity. The Ghanaian-Australian rose to fame in the 1990s when her TV series screened in over 40 countries. The chapter examines how Hafner styles herself as a culinary anthropologist who both mediates and mediatises not only black cuisines from African countries and diasporic communities (in A Taste of Africa and Taste of the Caribbean), but also cosmopolitan cuisines from Britain, the Americas, Asia and Europe (in Tastes of Britain and United Tastes of America). Moreover, it explores the complex signs this border-crossing cultural intermediary combines in her culinary persona, as she synthesises anthropologist with native, outsider with insider, traditional with modern, black with white, and third world with first world.

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de Solier, I. (2019). Ethnodelicious: Mediatized Culinary Anthropology and the Mediation of Global Food Cultures. In: Dürrschmidt, J., Kautt, Y. (eds) Globalized Eating Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93656-7_10

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