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In this assignment description, I present a class I developed at the University of Kentucky, Taco Literacy, as an example of such pedagogy. The class explores the languages and literacies of Mexican migration through the lens of emotionally resonant foodways.  \nAssignment Theoretical Rationale  \nIn “Bitter After Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics,” Ben Highmore explores the deep emotional registers linked to culinary preferences through cross-class and cross-cultural encounters as a form of “sensual pedagogy.” In what could be read as learning about culture through flavor and intensity, Highmore describes a “sensual pedagogy”in which students undergo a “sensual realignment”(134) . For Highmore, the socially-situated, visceral experiences of food include feelings that range, for example, from disdain to respect. Affect and teaching here connect learning through the senses with aesthetic and critical orchestration of taste as a locus of meaning. The food that powers the body is a central network of meaning, but food is also a visceral teaching tool. It's involving, embodied, and consuming. Highmore’s sensual pedagogy presents a fresh and practical theoretical frame encompassing affect, foodways, literacy, and race, positing that “every flavour has an emotional resonance (sweetness, sourness, bitterness)”(120) . The bio-cultural arena linked to food invokes forms of sensual perception and affective registers of visceral experience, suggesting that affect is central in pedagogies engaging the ethical tastes and habits of students. No doubt, students relate to taste preferences, but, like most of us, are hard-pressed to explain why we have such reactions.  \nHighmore describes how a sensual pedagogy extends into affective politics and further expands the aesthetic and critical realms of communities. The transformative potential of a sensual pedagogy through food defamiliarizes habitual interactions as moments for learning. Highmore’s sensual pedagogy can be extended into writing assignments crafted around politicizing foodways with respect to the links in the production and consumption chains. Sensual pedagogies exploring foodways bring already entangled communities into direct engagement through the uses of literacies as materialities.  \nThis sensual pedagogy Highmore describes in the U.S. context finds resonance in Mexican food, also often associated with a “nuclear burning of spices” and a long history of emotional resonances that invoke affective registers both welcoming and exclusive. In recent years, both journalists and academics in the humanities have shown increasing interest in connecting the migrations of Mexican food in the United States to multilingual, transnational, and cross-cultural issues (Arellano, Morton, Pilcher) . Even as they have added to the immense number of cookbooks out there and to restaurant reviews appearing in periodicals, the humanities and journalism have also collaborated in producing texts addressing important social justice issues related to foodways. These issues include migrant labor, digital activism, and the translation of indigenous Mexican cuisine as a challenge to imperialized diets (Calvo and Esquibel) .  \nIndeed, the influence of Mexican food in the United States is deeply connected to local intercultural experiences that extend beyond disciplines, genres, and national borders; food is also very much an emotional element of immigrants’  \nexperiences. Food can sustain affective connections and build publics across borders and languages. These important, emotio","cbCairiOxXu31eB8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairiOxXu31eB8","pdf",44618,"English","# Composition Forum 34, Summer 2016\n## Taco Literacies: Ethnography, Foodways, and Emotions through Mexican Food Writing\n## Assignment Theoretical Rationale\n## Assignment Pedagogical Goals\n## The Assignment","[{\"question\":\"What is the core purpose of the “Taco Literacy” assignment?\",\"answer\":\"Students use Mexican foodways to study emotionally resonant literacies, connecting sensory experiences to affective, aesthetic, and critical forms of learning and writing.\"},{\"question\":\"How does “sensual pedagogy” shape the theoretical framework?\",\"answer\":\"It links learning through the senses with aesthetic and critical orchestration of taste, treating food as a visceral teaching tool that extends into affective politics and community learning.\"},{\"question\":\"What tasks do students complete in the assignment?\",\"answer\":\"Students write about sensory experiences and preferences, develop an oral history project tied to a restaurant review using photography and text, and analyze emotion, language, and narrative foodways in the South and transnationally.\"}]","Taco Literacies: Ethnography, Foodways, and Emotions through Mexican Food Writing - Assignment | PDF",1792087703]