Curried cultures : globalization, food, and South Asia / edited by Krishnendu Ray and Tulasi Srinivas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Krishnendu.

Srinivas, Tulasi.

Series:

California studies in food and culture ; 34.

California studies in food and culture ; 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Social aspects--South Asia.

Food.

Food habits--South Asia.

Food habits.

Cosmopolitanism--South Asia.

Cosmopolitanism.

Nationalism--South Asia.

Nationalism.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attention to this phenomenon. Curried Cultures-a wide-ranging collection of essays-explores the relationship between globalization and South Asia through food, covering the cuisine of the colonial period to the contemporary era, investigating its material and symbolic meanings. Curried Cultures challenges disciplinary boundaries in considering South Asian gastronomy by assuming a proximity to dishes and diets that is often missing when food is a lens to investigate other topics. The book's established scholarly contributors examine food to comment on a range of cultural activities as they argue that the practice of cooking and eating matter as an important way of knowing the world and acting on it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction

2. A Different History of the Present: The Movement of Crops, Cuisines, and Globalization

3. Cosmopolitan Kitchens: Cooking for Princely Zenanas in Late Colonial India

4. Nation on a Platter: The Culture and Politics of Food and Cuisine in Colonial Bengal

5. Udupi Hotels: Entrepreneurship, Reform, and Revival

6. Dum Pukht: A Pseudo-Historical Cuisine

7. "Teaching Modern India How to Eat": "Authentic" Foodways and Regimes of Exclusion in Affluent Mumbai

8. "Going for an Indian": South Asian Restaurants and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Britain

9. Global Flows, Local Bodies: Dreams of Pakistani Grill in Manhattan

10. From Curry Mahals to Chaat Cafés: Spatialities of the South Asian Culinary Landscape

11. Masala Matters: Globalization, Female Food Entrepreneurs, and the Changing Politics of Provisioning

Postscript. Globalizing South Asian Food Cultures: Earlier Stops to New Horizons

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613520982

9781280116698

1280116692

9780520952249

0520952243

OCLC:

785396248