Cooking Cultures

Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor of History at the Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City. She is the author of Divine Affairs (2001), Religion, Law, and Power (2007), A History of Modern India (Cambridge, 2015) and, in Spanish, Fronteras del Hinduismo (2007).

Introduction: culinary cultures and convergent histories Ishita Banerjee-Dube; Part I. Food, Pride, Power: 1. Trout still on the menu? Indigeneity and cuisine Duncan Brown; 2. The hummus wars: local food, Guinness Records and the Palestinian-Israeli gastropolitics Nir Avieli; 3. Rice, pork and power in the Vietnamese village Erica J. Peters; Part II. Cooking, Cuisine, Gender: 4. Mem and Cookie: the colonial kitchen in Malaysia and Singapore Cecilia Leong-Salobir; 5. Modern menus: family, food, health and gender in colonial Bengal Ishita Banerjee-Dube; 6. Sweetness, gender, and identity in Japanese culinary culture Jon D. Holtzman; Part III. Food, Identity, Personhood: 7. Local foods in contemporary China: the case of southwest Hubei Xu Wu; 8. From the market to the kitchen and table: food and its many meanings in Dakar Maria Guadalupe Aguilar Escobedo; 9. What is human?: Food taboo and anthropophagy in northwest Mozambique Arianna Huhn; Part IV. Food, Myth, Nostalgia: 10. Global mixed race and culinary cultures: interethnic exchanges of food and love at Addis Ababa Café Jean Duruz; 11. The culinary myths of the Mexican nation Sarah Bakgeller.