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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This wonderful volume arrived in the mail today! If you've ever wanted to read about a mystic nun who loses her sense of taste after drinking from Mary's breast, cooks mole with the Baby Jesus, and worries that chiles rellenos are a sin, this chapter is for you.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'm organizing a panel on African and Afro-Diasporic Food Labor Across Empires for @rsaorg.bsky.social next year. Send me your abstracts! Deadline is July 27st. www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Where there's a will, there's a way, amigos.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

My review of Carolyn Nadeau’s monumental translation of the single most important Spanish cookbook is out in the latest Renaissance Quarterly 🤓 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Cuando me postulé a los programas doctorales en Estados Unidos lo hice con un ensayo sobre lírica popular al que le tenía poquísima fe. Por ese entonces yo era achichincle en la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua y conocí a Margit.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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. mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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. esculent.podbean.com

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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...

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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. cc @rachelstein.bsky.social @mourelle.bsky.social

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The ripple effects of this weekend are remarkable. After this weekend, a renowned Mexico City restaurant now plans to collaborate with an activist to ensure only ethically sourced mezcal is included on their menu.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A woman who had been involved in the Civil Rights Movement was the first to arrive each morning, sharing her wisdom and inspiring us all. Undergraduate Food Science students, unsatisfied with the lack of humanistic inquiry, found a space to ask the questions they rarely have the opportunity to.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Non-academics challenged scholars’ perspectives, while academics provided resources to help practitioners advance their work. A group of food activists and farmers drove all the way from Southern California to attend, eager to gain deeper training for their team.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The result was nothing short of extraordinary. We brought together an incredible group of scholars, artists, chefs, students, farmers, activists, and members of the community, to explore how engaging with the past can help pave the way toward a more equitable food system.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

On presentitis. We need more Marshall Salins among us.

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