ABSTRACT The legacy of French Creole culture in Missouri is particularly remarkable in the community of Old Mines, located in the North Eastern section of the Ozark Mountains. More isolated than the larger French village of Ste. Genevieve on the Mississippi River, this historically mining community has until recently retained a strong collective identity founded on the use of the French Creole language and specific cultural practices. Based on ethnographic and archival research, this article explores the role played by food and foodways in the perpetuation of this French Creole identity. I suggest that as the French language became prohibited at school and as the nearby populations increasingly stigmatized this culturally distinct population, socio-culinary practices allowed French Creoles to continue enacting symbolic boundaries between surrounding English-speaking communities and themselves.

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在密苏里州老矿区吃和做法国人

摘要 密苏里州的法国克里奥尔文化遗产在位于欧扎克山脉东北部的老矿区社区尤为显着。比更大的法国村庄 Ste. Genevieve 位于密西西比河上，这个历史悠久的采矿社区直到最近才保留了基于使用法国克里奥尔语和特定文化习俗的强大集体身份。本文基于人种学和档案研究，探讨了食物和饮食方式在延续这种法国克里奥尔人身份中所扮演的角色。我建议，随着法语在学校被禁止使用，以及附近的人口越来越污蔑这个文化独特的人群，