Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Culinary Cultures and Convergent Histories

pp 1-18

Part I - Food, Pride, Power

pp 19-20

1 - Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African

pp 21-38

2 - The Hummus Wars: Local Food, Guinness Records and Palestinian-Israeli Gastropolitics

pp 39-57

3 - Rice, Pork and Power in the Vietnamese Village, 1774–1883

pp 58-76

Part II - Cooking, Cuisine, Gender

pp 77-78

4 - ‘Mem’ and ‘Cookie’: The Colonial Kitchen in Malaysia and Singapore

pp 79-99

5 - Modern Menus: Food, Family, Health and Gender in Colonial Bengal

pp 100-121

6 - Sweetness, Gender, and Identity in Japanese Culinary Culture

pp 122-136

Part III - Food, Identity, Personhood

pp 137-138

7 - Local Foods and Meanings in Contemporary China: The Case of Southwest Hubei

pp 139-157

8 - From the Market to the Kitchen and Table: Food and its Many Meanings in Dakar

pp 158-176

9 - What is Human?: Anthropomorphic Anthropophagy in Northwest Mozambique

pp 177-198

Part IV - Food, Myth, Nostalgia

pp 199-200

10 - Ras el Hanout and Preserved Lemons: Memories, Markets and the Scent of Borrowed Traditions

pp 201-223

11 - Culinary Myths of the Mexican Nation

pp 224-246

Contributors

pp 247-250

Index

pp 251-255