Learning and Teaching

Culinary knowledge transmission evolves:

Traditional Methods

- Watching grandmothers cook - No recipes, just memory - Gendered knowledge (women's domain) - Oral tradition paramount

Contemporary Approaches

- Cooking schools teaching Créole cuisine - YouTube channels preserving techniques - Male chefs entering traditionally female spaces - Written recipes standardizing variations

"I write recipes my grandmother would laugh at," admits cookbook author Babette de Rozières. "She cooked by smell, taste, ancestors whispering. But if I don't write it down, who will remember?"