The Taste of Nostalgia: Revisiting There Ain’t No Sugar in Cornbread as Curriculum of Place

• In Event: Tasting Curriculum

Abstract

This paper highlights how Southern food traditions invite an exploration of the ethical, spiritual, and communal dimensions of curriculum. It questions what it means to remember, to taste, and to teach from within these entanglements of longing, history, and place. In doing so, it contributes to Division B’s ongoing conversations about how curriculum is lived, sensed, and remembered—and how seemingly small narratives, like family food stories, might serve as portals to larger curricular reckonings.

Author

• R. Ugena Whitlock, University of South Carolina - Upstate