The Food of Memory - Mary Melfi’s Conversations with Her Mother
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Abstract
During a conversation in Siena with Mary Melfi, we followed her journey to the land her mother had left behind in search of a New Life across the Ocean.Our springboard was the kitchen table where mother and daughter would sit, retrieving their immigrant story.Listening to Mary Melfi's reading of her 'conversations' with her mother, as recorded in her memoir Italy Revisited, we observed how the 'food' prepared at that table in a Montreal kitchen nourished a complex intricacy of the real and the imagined; we had a sense of the contradictory, entangled feelings with which memory paves the return to the past while promoting the advance to self-discovery.In her mother's kitchen, Mary Melfi was doing what Joe Fiorito did (or was imagined to have done) at his father's deathbed.In the memoir The Closer We Are to Dying, Joe Fiorito recalls how he "asked [his father] for the old stories" because he wanted to know who he was, who his father was, and where his family had come from."These old stories," he
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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