'Samin Nosrat's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: cooking on TV gets a decolonial makeover'.

With the proliferation of food-based content on streaming platforms like Netflix and the decolonial turn in food studies, feminism and media studies, we see the emergence of programs that deviate from prior colonial tropes of food exploration. One such case study explicated in this article is Irania...

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Published in:Food, Culture & Society Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 326 - 342
Main Author: Khorana, Sukhmani
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2024
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Summary:With the proliferation of food-based content on streaming platforms like Netflix and the decolonial turn in food studies, feminism and media studies, we see the emergence of programs that deviate from prior colonial tropes of food exploration. One such case study explicated in this article is Iranian-American writer and cook Samin Nosrat's Salt Acid Fat Heat, based on a popular and equally ground-breaking book of the same title by her. A close reading of the four parts of the series, and its production content and choices helps unpack how it is moving toward manifesting a decolonial feminist approach with regards to narratives about food.