ISBN:
9780520270114
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (328 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
California Studies in Food and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Curried Cultures : Globalization, Food, and South Asia
DDC:
394.1/20954
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PART ONE: OPENING THE ISSUES; 1. Introduction; 2. A Different History of the Present: The Movement of Crops, Cuisines and Globalization; PART TWO: THE PRINCELY-COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND THE NATIONALIST RESPONSE; 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; PART THREE: CITIES, MIDDLE CLASSES, AND PUBLIC CULTURES OF EATING; 5. Udupi Hotels: Entrepreneurship, Reform, and Revival; 6. Dum Pukht: A Pseudo-Historical Cuisine
Description / Table of Contents:
HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
Description / Table of Contents:
7. "Teaching Modern India How to Eat": "Authentic" Foodways and Regimes of Exclusion in Affluent Mumbai8. "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; Reference; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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