ABSTRACT
A food consciousness presents challenges within the realms of politics, economics, and ecology. The transformative possibilities that come from a critical food consciousness can take a student's individualized awareness, the familiarity to his/her food narratives, and with such awareness a student can return to him/her collective, historical whole through a de-familiarizing process of critically reflecting, analysing, and actively recreating their food narratives. The assignments themselves do not represent the transformative moments a food consciousness has the capacity to create, but the exploration and reflection they provide into students own food narratives. Within the realm of Western philosophy, Anazldas and Brunis food narratives challenge what Theodor Adorno called the logic of identity: a constant struggle of mind over body. The goal is to gather food narratives from students own family and members of the community who create and provide a similar food.
