Daniela Gutiérrez Flores
@danielagtzf.bsky.social
Ailurophile. Food, labor, culinary history. Early Modern Spain and LatAm.
Assistant Professor at UC Davis.
Assistant Professor at UC Davis.
My review of Carolyn Nadeau’s monumental translation of the single most important Spanish cookbook is out in the latest Renaissance Quarterly 🤓
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
January 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM
My review of Carolyn Nadeau’s monumental translation of the single most important Spanish cookbook is out in the latest Renaissance Quarterly 🤓
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Cuando me postulé a los programas doctorales en Estados Unidos lo hice con un ensayo sobre lírica popular al que le tenía poquísima fe. Por ese entonces yo era achichincle en la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua y conocí a Margit.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Cuando me postulé a los programas doctorales en Estados Unidos lo hice con un ensayo sobre lírica popular al que le tenía poquísima fe. Por ese entonces yo era achichincle en la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua y conocí a Margit.
A 1605 pliego that imagines the wedding between Guzmán de Alfarache and la Pícara Justina. Their wedding banquet includes grilled cats (☹️) that taste like ducks, and among the guests are Sancho Panza and Celestina.
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...
June 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A 1605 pliego that imagines the wedding between Guzmán de Alfarache and la Pícara Justina. Their wedding banquet includes grilled cats (☹️) that taste like ducks, and among the guests are Sancho Panza and Celestina.
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...
Surveiller et punir, a visual description. At @ucdavislibrary.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Surveiller et punir, a visual description. At @ucdavislibrary.bsky.social
Listen to the latest episode of Esculent, where I had such fun talking to the incomparable Paul Freedman. We discuss the history of the celebrity chef and Catalan cuisine while sipping French wine out of mezcal glasses.
esculent.podbean.com
esculent.podbean.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Listen to the latest episode of Esculent, where I had such fun talking to the incomparable Paul Freedman. We discuss the history of the celebrity chef and Catalan cuisine while sipping French wine out of mezcal glasses.
esculent.podbean.com
esculent.podbean.com
Imagine getting a book review like this.
February 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Imagine getting a book review like this.
New hat to celebrate a new season of the Esculent Podcast. Go listen! esculent.podbean.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
New hat to celebrate a new season of the Esculent Podcast. Go listen! esculent.podbean.com
Listen to our latest episode, recorded live! We talk with chefs Norma Listman and Saqib Keval about historically informed food, how to run a justice-based restaurant, and their recent (controversial) Chef's Table feature. This one is particularly good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
January 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Listen to our latest episode, recorded live! We talk with chefs Norma Listman and Saqib Keval about historically informed food, how to run a justice-based restaurant, and their recent (controversial) Chef's Table feature. This one is particularly good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Come to our MLA panel this Saturday! We reflect on workers' initiatives to create community, strategic efforts to make labor visible or invisible, and the contentious meanings surrounding the nature of work in early modern Iberia.
cc @rachelstein.bsky.social @mourelle.bsky.social
cc @rachelstein.bsky.social @mourelle.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Come to our MLA panel this Saturday! We reflect on workers' initiatives to create community, strategic efforts to make labor visible or invisible, and the contentious meanings surrounding the nature of work in early modern Iberia.
cc @rachelstein.bsky.social @mourelle.bsky.social
cc @rachelstein.bsky.social @mourelle.bsky.social
Exhibit B. (!!)
December 26, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Exhibit B. (!!)
Food Studies needs to engage urgently with Critical Race Studies. Exhibit A.
December 19, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Food Studies needs to engage urgently with Critical Race Studies. Exhibit A.
Food Studies needs to engage urgently with Critical Race Studies. Exhibit A.
December 19, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Food Studies needs to engage urgently with Critical Race Studies. Exhibit A.
Sure, some might say that I should just focus on my book. But I am convinced generating these spaces like this is as important as producing scholarship. It was absolutely fucking beautiful, and I cannot wait to do it all over again.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Sure, some might say that I should just focus on my book. But I am convinced generating these spaces like this is as important as producing scholarship. It was absolutely fucking beautiful, and I cannot wait to do it all over again.
I am shamelessly beaming with pride—not for myself, but for our team, particularly our amazing students and fellows who injected such energy and commitment into this project that was so special to witness. The junior faculty and future scholars shone this weekend—most of us women, no less.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
I am shamelessly beaming with pride—not for myself, but for our team, particularly our amazing students and fellows who injected such energy and commitment into this project that was so special to witness. The junior faculty and future scholars shone this weekend—most of us women, no less.
Public scholarship is not about dissemination and access to resources. It’s about community-building and collaboration, mutual understanding and dialogue, making each other uncomfortable, being vulnerable together, and (literally) sharing a table.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Public scholarship is not about dissemination and access to resources. It’s about community-building and collaboration, mutual understanding and dialogue, making each other uncomfortable, being vulnerable together, and (literally) sharing a table.
This weekend showed me what interdisciplinary public scholarship can really look like. Many of the farmers, cooks, artists, and scientists who joined us understood the importance of history more deeply than most university administrators and sadly even some academics.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
This weekend showed me what interdisciplinary public scholarship can really look like. Many of the farmers, cooks, artists, and scientists who joined us understood the importance of history more deeply than most university administrators and sadly even some academics.
I even got to nerd out with admired chefs about the history of cookbooks and introduce them to research resources so they continue to create a historically informed anti-colonial culinary narrative through their restaurant.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
I even got to nerd out with admired chefs about the history of cookbooks and introduce them to research resources so they continue to create a historically informed anti-colonial culinary narrative through their restaurant.
An African American chef plans to partner with a Blackxican filmmaker to explore transnational Afro-diasporic foodways. A scholar even gave up their honorarium and donated it to support an activist initiative we featured.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
An African American chef plans to partner with a Blackxican filmmaker to explore transnational Afro-diasporic foodways. A scholar even gave up their honorarium and donated it to support an activist initiative we featured.
The ripple effects of this weekend are remarkable. After this weekend, a renowned Mexico City restaurant now plans to collaborate with an activist to ensure only ethically sourced mezcal is included on their menu.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
The ripple effects of this weekend are remarkable. After this weekend, a renowned Mexico City restaurant now plans to collaborate with an activist to ensure only ethically sourced mezcal is included on their menu.
A woman who had been involved in the Civil Rights Movement was the first to arrive each morning, sharing her wisdom and inspiring us all. Undergraduate Food Science students, unsatisfied with the lack of humanistic inquiry, found a space to ask the questions they rarely have the opportunity to.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
A woman who had been involved in the Civil Rights Movement was the first to arrive each morning, sharing her wisdom and inspiring us all. Undergraduate Food Science students, unsatisfied with the lack of humanistic inquiry, found a space to ask the questions they rarely have the opportunity to.
Non-academics challenged scholars’ perspectives, while academics provided resources to help practitioners advance their work. A group of food activists and farmers drove all the way from Southern California to attend, eager to gain deeper training for their team.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Non-academics challenged scholars’ perspectives, while academics provided resources to help practitioners advance their work. A group of food activists and farmers drove all the way from Southern California to attend, eager to gain deeper training for their team.
The result was nothing short of extraordinary. We brought together an incredible group of scholars, artists, chefs, students, farmers, activists, and members of the community, to explore how engaging with the past can help pave the way toward a more equitable food system.
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
The result was nothing short of extraordinary. We brought together an incredible group of scholars, artists, chefs, students, farmers, activists, and members of the community, to explore how engaging with the past can help pave the way toward a more equitable food system.
This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?
On presentitis. We need more Marshall Salins among us.
November 16, 2024 at 6:10 PM
On presentitis. We need more Marshall Salins among us.