Corporate power is a relentless force in shaping how and what we eat. Join us this week with Professor Enrique C. Ochoa, author of the upcoming book México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality, to discuss the role of corporations in constructing a thread of Mexico’s culinary history.
Enrique C. Ochoa is Professor of History and Latin American Studies at California State University, Los Angeles
Viewing: Disneyland’s Mission Tortilla Factory (2001-2011)
Tasting: Arbol de Fuego by Vinos Pijoan
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Host: Elizabeth McQueen Producer: Stace Baran Theme by Ronan Delisle Audio Support from Jenevieve Bohmann
This podcast is supported by the UC Davis Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, Thinking Food at the Intersections.
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