[Aztlan] Modern Mexican Cuisine

[Karen Bassie]

Brett Watson and I have organized a session for the University of 
Calgary's Chac Mool Conference this November that addresses this topic. 
It is entitled The Role of Sustenance in the Feasts, Festivals, Rituals 
and Every Day Life of Mesoamerica. The intent of this session is to 
explore the varieties and types of sustenance utilized in feasts, 
festivals, rituals and every day life, and to investigate the social, 
political and economic impact that this food and drink had on 
Mesoamerican society. The session is intended to include a wide range of 
topics that can be specific case studies or more general overviews. 
Papers in this session will examine both practical and ideological 
conceptualizations of sustenance in the past and present.

Participants include Araceli Aguilar-Melendez, Denise Brown:, Linda 
Brown:, Mary Ciaramella, Falken Forshaw:, Kerry Hull:, Robert Laughlin, 
Brian Stross:, Andrew Wyatt, George Bey, William Fowler, Geoffrey 
McCafferty, Norbert Stanchly, Liz Graham, Anne Pyburn, Michael Carrasco, 
Barbara Arroyo, Dorie Reents Budet, Nick Hopkins, Paul Healey, Cameron 
McNeil, Michael Carrasco, Judith Strupp Green, Kitty Emery, and John 
Staller.
Further information about the Chac Mool Conference is at 
http://arky.ucalgary.ca/Chacmool2007/index.htm