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Food Politics 101

Remedial Kids is a social community for the culturally curious. We host playful academic lectures at cosy bars across Singapore.

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Session #10

Food is deeply political.

It flavors the social roles we accept, the laws we enforce, and the economic systems we design. This lecture examines how food is weaponized to create "in" versus "out" groups, how controlling the food supply becomes a mechanism for controlling people, and how our relationship with food fundamentally shapes which social problems we recognize and what solutions we imagine. Using historical and contemporary examples, we'll follow food's role in constructing individual and collective identities, ultimately revealing how the seemingly ordinary act of eating underpins some of the most basic structures of our society.

About the speaker: Jenny is a professional chef and food writer, researcher, and educator who studies food as the foundation for human meaning-making and identity formation. She holds a Master of Education from Harvard University and just finished her Fulbright-National Geographic Fellowship in Singapore, researching food policy in the context of hawker centres. Jenny is an IACP-winning photographer, James Beard Awards-nominated writer, and has been named an industry Game Changer by Food & Wine and a Trailblazing Activist by the World’s 50 Best.

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