ABSTRACT This essay analyzes the rhetorical moves employed in Chef’s Table’s “Mashama Bailey.” Bailey’s narrative functions as a constitutive text, providing an ideal case study for the nexus of rhetoric, regional identity, place, and food. Rhetoric and food studies cross paths in three modes: production, circulation, and access. I address production, arguing that the text produces collective identity by tying it to food production and preparation. Then, I consider the placed rhetoricity of consumption practices. Finally, I address food access, reflecting on the imagined audiences for Bailey’s restaurant and thinking about the significance of that access from a sociohistorical perspective. In reflecting on the rhetoricity of these modes, scholars may discover a portrait of Southern Black subjectivity in the American South.

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在厨师长餐桌的“ Mashama Bailey”中塑造南方黑人的身份

摘要本文分析了厨师长餐桌“ Mashama Bailey”中的修辞手法。Bailey的叙事作为构成性文字发挥作用，为修辞学，区域特性，地点和食物之间的联系提供了理想的案例研究。修辞学和食品学以三种方式交叉发展：生产，流通和获取。我谈到生产，认为文本通过将其与食品生产和准备联系起来而产生了集体认同。然后，我考虑一下消费习惯的修辞学。最后，我谈到食物获取问题，回顾百利餐厅的想象中的观众，并从社会历史的角度思考这种获取的意义。在反思这些模式的言辞性时，学者们可能会发现美国南部的南方黑人主观性画像。