The Hungry City Singapore’s Food History in Global Perspective - Session 4 Sea

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DescriptionThe Hungry City: Singapore’s Food History in Global Perspective Workshop (27-28 May 2021) was organised by Yale-NUS College and held in conjunction with the Singapore Heritage Festival 2021.

The two-day session brought together a diverse group of Singapore-based faculty, intellectuals, cultural workers, and history students to reflect on food’s multi-layered, omnipresent nature in old Singapore. The speakers drew on a broad span of approaches to deepen our understanding of traditional food. This included examining the culinary, social, oral, environmental, political, and economic history, as well as the history of science, technology, and medicine behind food.

SESSION 4: SEA

Seeing Red: Snappers in Singapore History
Dr Geoffrey Pakiam | Fellow, Temasek History Research Centre, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

An X-Ray into Sambal Stingray: How a Trash Fish Became a Local Hawker Favourite
Ms Inez Alsagoff | Alumna, Environmental Studies Programme, National University of Singapore

La-La Land: A Cultural Biography of Singapore's Edible Sea Shells
Mr Faris Joraimi | Alumnus (Class of 2021), Major in History, Yale-NUS CollegeCreatorYale-NUS CollegeDate01-JUN-2021FormatVideoLanguageEnglishLength01:31:32EventThe Hungry City: Singapore’s Food History in Global PerspectivePublisherYale-NUS CollegeLocationSingapore

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SubjectSingapore’s Food History in Global PerspectiveKeywordFoodCultureTraditionCulinarySea