Hands in the dough: bread and/as a pedagogy of performative remembering

In this paper, we consider our experiences in a community bread-baking project, part of the international Bread Houses Network. We explore the performative and narrative power of food memories - as recounted and created during Bread House gatherings - to serve as sites where inter/cultural identities, differences, and dis/connections are made and negotiated. We propose the processes of food remembering and creation that we facilitate at the Bread House as a performative and critical pedagogy that enables and encourages us to form solidarities, address current problematics, and build a better future in a more concrete sense (Alexander, Bryant Keith, et al. Identifying Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges in Today's World: Connecting Our Scholarship to Dynamic Contexts and Historical Moments. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 7.1 (2014): 38-67. Print).