This study argues that spice talk, a register that indexes spices as exotic, is one linguistic instantiation of the discourse of Orientalism. I identify the presence of this register from the advent of the Spice Trade to the present, then provide a case study of its use in cooking show programs by British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, whose Orientalist description of the spices and foods she prepares is a means of indexing physical commodities from the East as ‘‘Oriental’’ and naturalizing the link between spices and the exotic, as well as upholding power imbalances. I maintain that spice talk comprises five thematic features: poetics, sensuality, tourism, otherness, and coloniality. I argue throughout for a situated understanding of spice talk, asserting that contemporary practices of consumption and patterns of taste cannot be divorced from the broader social order or the weight of history.

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香料谈话：奈杰拉·劳森 (Nigella Lawson) 的烹饪节目中的一位东方主义者

这项研究认为，香料谈话是一种将香料列为异国情调的语录，是东方主义话语的一种语言实例。我确定了从香料贸易出现到现在这个寄存器的存在，然后提供了英国名厨 Nigella Lawson 在烹饪节目中使用它的案例研究，她对她准备的香料和食物的东方主义描述是一种手段将来自东方的实物商品标示为“东方”并将香料与异国情调之间的联系自然化，以及维持权力不平衡。我认为香料谈话包括五个主题特征：诗学、性感、旅游、差异性和殖民性。我一直在争论对香料谈话的情境理解，