Roti with hagelslag and pizza with sillström: the multicultural food environment

Abstract

Almere (the Netherlands) is a newly built city: it recently celebrated its 50th birthday. Being so young, the city does not have much of a culinary heritage. That said, it is a very multicultural city, meaning it’s the different nationalities that make up the city’s cuisine. Starting from a Social Practice Theory perspective I discuss the role of ‘food from home’ for people with a migration background, both first and second generation. I show that through processes of fusion and ceremonialization the role of such foods in daily life changes – although their importance does not. I also shortly discuss the implications of this finding, countering it to how migrant eating is often problematized and seeing opportunities for the protein transition.

Speaker 

Esther Veen, Aeres, University of Applied Sciences, NL 

Chair 

Francesca Forno, Università di Trento