Cooking , Memories and Family Identity: Investigating Family-Cooking and Dietary Transformation During the Past 30 Years in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Liao,Chin-Hui, 廖志惠
• Other Authors: YEH, HSIN-YI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zhvuk4

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 107 === This study examines the effects of the family-cooking transitions on family memories and identity-formation among Taiwanese dietary transformation during the past 30 years. Cooking can be a part of solidification for social groups; moreover, family-cooking and eating-together are significant parts of family memories and identity-formation. Nevertheless, during past 30 years, the drastic social and family structure changes (and thus consequently, the growing eating-out social trend) in Taiwan did bring transformations as for family-centered cooking process, “Grandma's cooking”, eating-together habits, and so on. I conducted In-depth interviews to uncovers the outcomes of social changes on family-cooking and to illuminate how family memories and identities (which resulted from family-cooking) maintain and/or adjust according to the social changes. The research results show that, family-cooking weakens during the changing of dietary habits, but the values underneath family-cooking remains. Family members are still holding the belief and maintaining cooking by kinds of strategies, that is to say, to a great extent, family-cooking is still regarded as “superior” to eating-out. On the one hand, Family-cooking became simplified and interweaved with eating-out to keep constructing family memories and identity. Additionally, family-cooking is more “sacred” than before and also is emphasized as playing the caring function. Further, it is part of important agents of reunion. On the other hand, eating-out doesn’t “compete” against family-cooking. Quite in the contrast, undergoing the dietary change, eating- out is “included” in family-cooking. Women are released from traditional household responsibilities. For Women, family-cooking is no longer their “duty,” but also as a valid way to express their emotions, to form their self-identity and as an accomplishment. Keywords: family cooking; eating out; memory; dietary change; family identity