Autor
Claudia González Marrero
Doctora en Estudios Culturales por la Universidad Justus Liebig, Alemania. Investigadora de Food Monitor Program, donde coordina las publicaciones académicas. Sus áreas de investigación son la Sociología política y la Historia de las mentalidades. Su libro Literatura, Política y Sociedad: Cuatro representaciones de imaginarios en la Revolución cubana fue publicado por la Editorial Hypermedia en el año 2021.
The author of the text describes her impressions after returning to Cuba after two years abroad.
The ability to choose which foods you want to try, eat, incorporate, or remove from your everyday diet is a sign of food identity that expresses an individual’s and society’s ethical and cultural preferences. However, it’s very hard to talk about eating choices in Cuba for different reasons.
After two economic crises in Cuba, conditions for Cubans’ right to food have been disrupted especially in everyday food-related activities.
In a system where the collective memory is marked by State policies, and the legacy of the workers is only formally recognized by the official entities, a food basket reward like the one given our “glories of national sports”, or granted to a historic cultural generation, of which Gina Cabrera forms part, is pitiful.
Autores
Claudia González Marrero
Doctora en Estudios Culturales por la Universidad Justus Liebig, Alemania. Investigadora de Food Monitor Program, donde coordina las publicaciones académicas. Sus áreas de investigación son la Sociología política y la Historia de las mentalidades. Su libro Literatura, Política y Sociedad: Cuatro representaciones de imaginarios en la Revolución cubana fue publicado por la Editorial Hypermedia en el año 2021.
The author of the text describes her impressions after returning to Cuba after two years abroad.
In a system where the collective memory is marked by State policies, and the legacy of the workers is only formally recognized by the official entities, a food basket reward like the one given our “glories of national sports”, or granted to a historic cultural generation, of which Gina Cabrera forms part, is pitiful.
The ability to choose which foods you want to try, eat, incorporate, or remove from your everyday diet is a sign of food identity that expresses an individual’s and society’s ethical and cultural preferences. However, it’s very hard to talk about eating choices in Cuba for different reasons.
After two economic crises in Cuba, conditions for Cubans’ right to food have been disrupted especially in everyday food-related activities.
