Daniela Gutiérrez Flores

A 1605 pliego that imagines the wedding between Guzmán de Alfarache and la Pícara Justina. Their wedding banquet includes grilled cats (☹️) that taste like ducks, and among the guests are Sancho Panza and Celestina.

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A historical reconstruction of a 15th century recipe of Menjar blanc de carabasses from Mestre Robert's Libre del Coch. Great stuff from the Esculent Podcast team! esculent.podbean.com/e/libredelco...

Surveiller et punir, a visual description. At @ucdavislibrary.bsky.social

Hmmm gracias!

¿A alguien le suena la expresión "quebrar los cuernos" como equivalente de "pintarlos"?

Always a good idea. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Speaking to the Medieval and Early Modern Studies crowd at UC Davis next week!

Foto del pont de Besalú com a pòrtic a les jornades ‘Modernitats medievals’.

No veig el dia ni el mes, l’estació ni el temps, l’hora ni el punt.

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Listen to the latest episode of Esculent, where I had such fun talking to the incomparable Paul Freedman. We discuss the history of the celebrity chef and Catalan cuisine while sipping French wine out of mezcal glasses.
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Imagine getting a book review like this.

I know

In case you had any doubts, our dean informed us that, in an effort to face budget cuts and find alternative sources of funding, the college has created the “Silicon Valley Advising Group”. 🫠

New hat to celebrate a new season of the Esculent Podcast. Go listen! esculent.podbean.com

Next month at UC Davis!

What The MLA Is... The organization has chosen an interpretation of fiduciary responsibility beyond the wildest hopes of Chicago School economists.

“The Chicago School doctrine of Corporate Social Responsibility is a rhetorical justification for private corporations to do what they prefer to do anyway: act contrary to the interests of rank-&-file employees, harmed communities, & social activists. This is what the MLA is endorsing…”

Listen to our latest episode, recorded live! We talk with chefs Norma Listman and Saqib Keval about historically informed food, how to run a justice-based restaurant, and their recent (controversial) Chef's Table feature. This one is particularly good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Come to our MLA panel this Saturday! We reflect on workers' initiatives to create community, strategic efforts to make labor visible or invisible, and the contentious meanings surrounding the nature of work in early modern Iberia.

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Exhibit B. (!!)

Food Studies needs to engage urgently with Critical Race Studies. Exhibit A.

Food Studies needs to engage urgently with Critical Race Studies. Exhibit A.

Gracias querida!

Thank you!!

Thank you! 🥹

Sure, some might say that I should just focus on my book. But I am convinced generating these spaces like this is as important as producing scholarship. It was absolutely fucking beautiful, and I cannot wait to do it all over again.

I am shamelessly beaming with pride—not for myself, but for our team, particularly our amazing students and fellows who injected such energy and commitment into this project that was so special to witness. The junior faculty and future scholars shone this weekend—most of us women, no less.

Public scholarship is not about dissemination and access to resources. It’s about community-building and collaboration, mutual understanding and dialogue, making each other uncomfortable, being vulnerable together, and (literally) sharing a table.

This weekend showed me what interdisciplinary public scholarship can really look like. Many of the farmers, cooks, artists, and scientists who joined us understood the importance of history more deeply than most university administrators and sadly even some academics.

I even got to nerd out with admired chefs about the history of cookbooks and introduce them to research resources so they continue to create a historically informed anti-colonial culinary narrative through their restaurant.

An African American chef plans to partner with a Blackxican filmmaker to explore transnational Afro-diasporic foodways. A scholar even gave up their honorarium and donated it to support an activist initiative we featured.