About this Event
Join Dr. R. Claire Bunschoten and the Institute for Art and Olfaction's Minetta Rogers for an author reading. Dr. Bunschoten will select passages from 'Eau de cookie dough”: Gourmand Fragrances, Negotiating Nostalgia, and Inedible Food Cultures,' followed by a discussion and audience Q&A.
This is an online event that will take place on Zoom. If you are unable to attend live, the event will be recorded and shared with all registrants.
ABOUT THE ARTICLE
Dr. Claire Bunschoten explores concepts of longing that often circulate with gourmand fragrances, tracing the negotiation of nostalgia from the emergence of this fragrance family to odes composed to Bath and Body Works’ Warm Vanilla Sugar.
“Eau de cookie dough’: Gourmand Fragrances, Negotiating Nostalgia, and Inedible Food Cultures” investigates the role of nostalgia in the meanings and uses of gourmand fragrances. It traces a brief history of gourmands from the point of their emergence in the 1990s to their adaptation by American women and girls in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Moving into the present, “Eau de Cookie Dough” also interprets two retrospective works that use Warm Vanilla Sugar by Bath and Body Works to reflect upon the body-based anxieties and desires of pubescent women in the 2000s. “Eau de Cookie Dough” reveals the complicated interplay of food, gender, and consumer culture as well as changing forms and relationships to food-based nostalgia. Moreover, the article asserts the importance of perfumery to the academic study of food in culture.
A version of this article will be shared with all the registered participants upon sign-up.
ABOUT DR. R. CLAIRE BUNSCHOTEN
Dr. R. Claire Bunschoten is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests in critical food studies, sensory studies, and cultural studies. She is the Abbott Lowell Cummings Postdoctoral Fellow in American Material Culture at Boston University in the American & New England Studies Program where she teaches courses on material culture, food, and the senses. Her current book project investigates vanilla as a flavor, fragrance, and euphemism for race in the United States.
Dr. Bunschoten holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in American Studies from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in History & American Studies from Bard College. During the 2022-2023 academic year, she served as a Mellon Research Fellow in the Food Humanities at the New York Botanical Garden.
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