Fermentation workshop and introduction to project exploring food culture in South Greenland
Samantha Ruth Brown has just arrived in NIRS and will be running a fermentation workshop tomorrow Sunday the 26th May in Beboerhuset.
She is a PhD Candidate in Geography with a specialization in Food Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research broadly uses food as a lens for studying systems of power and resistance in Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
Her project “Fermented Futures: The Place of Iginneq in Danish Fine Dining.” considers the increasing use of traditional Inuit foods — specifically iginneq, (fermented seal blubber from South Greenland) — in European fine dining. This project considers the complexity of food sovereignty, colonialism, and the tensions between celebrating and appropriating indigenous foodways
She is working on two projects related to food practices in Greenland. The first project considers recent guidelines that emphasize more plants and less meat, what these guidelines mean for Arctic communities, and what lessons can be drawn from traditional Greenlandic Inuit food practices for how we might re-imagine a different food system
The second project considers the use of traditional Greenlandic Inuit foods in European fine dining. Focusing on the potential use of iginneq (fermented seal blubber from South Greenland), this project involves ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews that aim to understand how South Greenlandic communities experience and think about the export and decontextualization of their traditional foods in fine dining settings.
This question is situated within a period of time where many Greenlanders are advocating for greater self-definition through increased independence from Denmark, and where many fine dining chefs are incorporating more traditional indigenous and/or fermented foods into their menus.
Both projects are in collaboration with Dr. Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann, an Inuk (Greenlandic Inuit) microbiologist whose scholarship concerns traditionally fermented Greenlandic foods
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Samantha Ruth Brown Oregonimi Universititiani Nerisassanik immikkut sammisaqarluni geografimi Ph.D Kandidatiuvoq. Taassuma ilisimatusarnermini Danmarkimi Kalaallillu Nunaanni pissaanermut akerliunermullu ersiutitut nerisassat atorneqartarnerat misissugaraa.
Samanthap suliaani “Siunissaq igisoq: Danskit nerisassiaani kusanartuni Iginnerup atugaanera”, Inuit nerisassaatitoqaasa atugaanerulernissaat isummersorfigineqarpoq – pingaartumik iginnerup Europami kusanartunik nerisassiornermi atugaanerulernissaa nalilersuiffigineqarluni. Suliniummi tassani isummersorfigineqartunut ilaapput inuussutissatigut oqartussaassuseq, nunasiaateqarneq, kiisalu nunat inoqqaavisa inuussutissalerisarneranik saqqumilaartitsisarnerup iluanaarniuteqartarnerullu akerleriiffiusarnerat.
Samantha suliniutinik Kalaallit Nunaanni nerisassioriaatsinut tunngassuteqartunik ingerlataqarpoq. Suliniummi siullermi najoqqutassat nutaanerusut neqimik atuivallaarani naasunik atuinerusunissamik pingaartitsiviusut isummersorfigineqarput, kiisalu najoqqutassiat taakku Issittumi inoqarfinnut qanoq sunniuteqarneri, kiisalu kalaallit qangaaniit nerisassiortarnerisa nerisassioriaatsini allaasuni qanoq isumaliutigeqqinneqarsinnaanerat nalilersorneqarlutik.
Suliniutip aappaani kalaallit nerisassaatitoqaasa europamiut nerisassiaani kusanartuliani atorneqarsinnaassusiat isummersorfigineqarpoq. Tassani iginnerup atorneqarsinnaanera oqaluuserineqarpoq, suliamilu tassani inuit tikillugit ileqquinik misissuiffigineqartarput kiisalu siumut aaqqissoriigaakannersunik apersorneqartarlutik, apersuinertigullu Kujataamiut qangaaniit nerisassiarisartakkamik nerisassiatut kusanasaakkatut avammut nioqqutigineqalernissaannut nalinginnaasumillu atorneqarfiinit ingalatsillugit atorneqartalernissaannut qanoq misigisaqarnerat eqqarsaateqarnerallu paasiniarneqarpoq.
Apeqqut taanna kalaalerpassuit Danmarkimut atavallaarunnaarlutik immikkoorutiminnik ersersitsiumallerfiata nalaani tusarsaalerpoq, kusanasaakkanillu igasartut qasseerpassuit akornanni qanganiit nerisassiaasartunik aamma/imaluunniit pisoqalitsikkanik annerusumik atuisalernerup nalaani saqqummiunneqarluni.
Suliniutit taakku marluit Dr. Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann, kalaaleq mikrobiologi, kalaallit nerisassiaannik pisoqalitsikkanik ilisimatusartuusoq, suleqatigalugu ingerlanneqarput.