Counter Culture: A Zine
A Zine Project
Zine: a small magazine that is written by people who are not professional writers and that usually has stories about a particular subject.
This is a part of a design project that required students to pick a topic and create a 20 page zine about that topic. I chose to create a zine about my cultural exploration through food and how it is important to keep culture alive.
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Counter Culture: Connecting Through Food is a story of finding oneself and their culture through the foods that they grow up eating. With each passing year more and more people immigrate to America for our bountiful opportunities and a chance to give their children more then what their native country can provide for them. Immigrants bring their own unique customs, food, languages, traditions and all of this adds more diversity and depth to the melting pot that is the United States. However, as the years go by and families begin to assimilate to American culture, 2nd and 3rd generation children of immigrants begin to lose their connections to their native cultures. Some families begin to strip away parts of their culture which will not be passed down and they begin to lose unique cultural customs. Nevertheless, the best way to reconnect to culture is to experience the food; to taste the spices, feel the textures, prepare the ingredients and enjoy food with grandmothers and grandfathers.
