As the appetite for Latino food has grown exponentially in the American Northeast, why has the visibility of Latino food workers decreased? Learn about Latino food and food labor in the Northeastern United States since World War II with Dr. Lori Flores, author of the recent book, Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19.
Though Latino cuisine is eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latino people, including the largely underpaid immigrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and sell this popular food. Focusing on the Northeastern United States, Dr. Lori A. Flores traces how American’s dual appetite for Latino food and Latino food labor has evolved from the World War II era to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Flores will describe the experiences of food workers with roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Central America, from New Jersey to Maine, and links in the food chain, from farming to restaurants to seafood processing to the deliverista rights movement.
