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Jennie Youssef

is a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation investigates how early modern foodways revolutionized global food culture and examines the impact of colonially driven exchange of food knowledge on festive practice, religious celebrations, and the reimagination and representation of the self on stage and in society.
A Glimpse into the Cultural History of Fragaria
hand drawn color image of a strawberry plant with berries and a flower
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A Glimpse into the Cultural History of Fragaria

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a guest post by Jennie Youssef When the term of my Folger fellowship began, I had made some headway in my research for a dissertation chapter on the foodway of strawberries. The strawberry’s symbolic significance in medieval art and early…