Daniela Gutiérrez Flores

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.

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...

www.guernicamag.com/three-pages-... Today marks a year since Alexandra died. In her memory I will take little sips of wine, read out loud and slowly, and order dessert. I miss her more than I would have thought.

A year ago, my friend Alexandra Bellow died: a Romanian mathematician, former wife of Saul Bellow, and an extraordinary woman who was in love with Don Quixote until her very last day. I wrote this small tribute in the days just after her death. www.guernicamag.com/three-pages-...

No caption. Dutch, 17th c.

Mondongueras castellanas, 1958.

Grateful for this support that will help me develop my book project.

Estos días me está dando mucha vergüenza ajena la horda de académicos e intelectuales latinoamericanos showing the whole spectrum of Bourdieu’s scholastic fallacies.

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

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....

Ha muerto Cecilia Giménez. Durante años dijimos Ecce Homo y nos reímos, pero aquello no fue un meme: fue cuidado, precariedad, una mujer mayor intentando sostener lo que se caía. El chiste fue nuestro. La imagen, una herida de época. en @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/muer...

Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés ctxt.es/es/20251201/...

El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado

Leer a Margit marcó un antes y un después. Su trabajo me hizo ver la poesía viva de todos los días y cambió por completo mi entendimiento de la literatura. No sé si hubiera seguido por el camino de las letras—que a ratos se sentía tan estéril y alejado del mundo—sin ella.

Esta reseña que hizo Sam Armistead del Nuevo corpus de la lírica popular resume lo que nos deja Margit tras su muerte.

One day I will write a lengthy essay on the excruciating psychological pain the absurd practice of American leaf-blowing bestows upon me.

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...

A historical reconstruction of a 15th century recipe of Menjar blanc de carabasses from Mestre Robert's Libre del Coch. Great stuff from the Esculent Podcast team! esculent.podbean.com/e/libredelco...

Surveiller et punir, a visual description. At @ucdavislibrary.bsky.social

¿A alguien le suena la expresión "quebrar los cuernos" como equivalente de "pintarlos"?

Speaking to the Medieval and Early Modern Studies crowd at UC Davis next week!

No veig el dia ni el mes, l’estació ni el temps, l’hora ni el punt. faberllull.cat/ca/residenci...

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

Imagine getting a book review like this.

In case you had any doubts, our dean informed us that, in an effort to face budget cuts and find alternative sources of funding, the college has created the “Silicon Valley Advising Group”. 🫠

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

Next month at UC Davis!

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...

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

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