You can now study tacos at the University of Kentucky, because everything is beautiful. Especially tacos. This might be even better than that university that lets you major in pizza.
The class, named “Taco Literacy: Public Advocacy and Mexican Food in the U.S. South," is an undergraduate course taught by Steven Alvarez, an assistant professor in the university’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies department. The aims of the course are to "explore the history and networks of Mexican and Mexican American food in the United States," including looking at "rhetorics of authenticity, local variations to preparation or presentation, and how food literacies situate different spaces, identities, and forms of knowledge."
All of that sounds genuinely fascinating — and also delicious.
Alvarez first got the idea for the class while working with the Southern Foodways Alliance. "After going to one of their symposiums, it really hit me that food is important," he said in an interview with Vice. "The oral histories of food that I heard were amazing. The stories were really impactful but the food became secondary. It was more about the social connections that people were making with food."
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