{"id":11816,"date":"2011-04-18T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=11816"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:35:05","slug":"modernist-cuisine-for-moderns-jennifer-burns-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/modernist-cuisine-for-moderns-jennifer-burns-levin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cModernist Cuisine for Moderns\u201d\u2014Jennifer Burns Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?attachment_id=11846\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11846\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-11846\" title=\"JBLUOPhoto\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/JBLUOPhoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/JBLUOPhoto.jpg 170w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/JBLUOPhoto-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a> 115 Lawrence Hall<br \/>\n1190 Franklin Blvd.<br \/>\nUO campus<\/p>\n<h5>FITF Works-in-Progress Series<\/h5>\n<p>Jennifer Burns Levin, Clark Honors College<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModernist Cuisine for Moderns\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the\u00a0Food in the Field Research Interest Group, UO Center for the Study of Women in Society<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: I examine the \u2018modernist\u2019 in Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (2011), a six-volume, 2,400-page, award-winning cookbook edited by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold and a team of writers and chefs. Formerly known as molecular gastronomy, \u201cmodernist cuisine\u201d has been adopted as a new label for the style of restaurant cooking known for its gels and foams, its precision and creativity.<!--more--> What\u2019s at stake for this anachronistic label? I argue that unmooring modernism from its history has the potential to \u201cmake it new\u201d in a very modernist spirit.\u00a0 But, by doing so, Myhrvold reveals some less savory flavors associated with modernism, as well \u2013 gender, race, and class privilege that it asserts in a codependent relationship with the middle-class consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Bio:\u00a0 Jennifer Burns Levin teaches literature at the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, where she leads an interdisciplinary faculty research interest group in food studies through the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. She is editing a book-length manuscript, Lower Discipline: The Many Masochisms of Modernism, and researching a new project on modernist hunger and gastronomic practices. She earned a Ph.D. in English literature from University of California, Irvine; her publications include reviews and articles for Gastronomica (forthcoming), Joyce Studies Annual, the James Joyce Quarterly, and the James Joyce Literary Supplement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>115 Lawrence Hall 1190 Franklin Blvd. UO campus FITF Works-in-Progress Series Jennifer Burns Levin, Clark Honors College \u201cModernist Cuisine for Moderns\u201d Sponsored by the\u00a0Food in the Field Research Interest Group, UO Center for the Study of Women in Society Abstract:&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/modernist-cuisine-for-moderns-jennifer-burns-levin\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-food-in-the-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32615,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816\/revisions\/32615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}