Taste and Kinship: Connection between Food and Family in French Children's Literature

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Virine Hutasangkas

Abstract

Food is often used to represent kinship in children's literature. This is because food is a shared experience that can bring people together. Therefore, every "time and space" in a young character's house related to food is always cherished by the character itself and the writer: mealtimes, which are a time for families to come together and bond, and the kitchen, which is a place where families come together to cook and talk. The dining table and mealtime, along with the kitchen and food preparation time, are therefore "time and space" where memories are made and traditions are passed down.


          Therefore, this article aims to study the relationship between food and family in 29 French children's literature about family and/or food published between the 19th and 21st centuries, divided according to the setting in which food and characters appear. How can children's literature present relationship within a family through food-related scenes? Are there any particular family values emphasized by children's literature? There are 3 types in total: 1) "dining table scenes", which are scenes in which characters interact while sharing food with each other, 2) "kitchen scenes", which show scenes of family members cooking together, 3) "home scenes in characters' memory,” where the characters' memory about home is stimulated with food when they have to leave home and family.

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Hutasangkas, V. (2023). Taste and Kinship: Connection between Food and Family in French Children’s Literature. Chiang Mai University Journal of Humanities, 25(1), 269–292. Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JHUMANS/article/view/270821
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