Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Sarit K. Chaudhuri , Debarshi Prasad Nath , and Dhurjjati Sarma -- List of Figure and Tables / Sarit K. Chaudhuri , Debarshi Prasad Nath , and Dhurjjati Sarma -- Acknowledgements / Sarit K. Chaudhuri , Debarshi Prasad Nath , and Dhurjjati Sarma -- Introduction / Debarshi Prasad Nath and Dhurjjati Sarma -- The History and Historiography of Indian Food: The State of the Field / Jayanta Sengupta -- Food and Fellowship / Mihir Bhattacharya -- Theorizing Food Studies: Gender and Ideologies / Sukalpa Bhattacharjee -- Anthropological Perspectives of Pregnancy Dietary Patterns among Indian Women / Caitlyn D. Placek -- Food, Folklore and the Construction of Social Reality: Perspectives from Arunachal Pradesh / Sarit K. Chaudhuri -- Sociality and Anxiety in the Foodways of Malabar / Hashik N.K. -- Gastronomic Terrain of the Sikkim Himalaya / Uttam Lal and Charisma K. Lepcha -- Garo Food Habits and Ethnicity: A Folkloric Perspective / Chandamita Goswami -- Edible Memories: Rasogolla and Food Fiction / Bijay K. Danta -- Food and Narration: Encoding Pain and Fracture in Bangla Partition Literature / Sravani Biswas -- Food Mnemonics and Identity Construction / Suranjana Barua -- Tea as Food: Tracing the History of Tea through Folktales and Fairy Tales / Yashomana Choudhury -- Cultural Construction of Famine Food / Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri -- Scarcity, Survival, and Memories / Kanchan Mukhopadhyay -- The Gustatory Metaphor: Decoding Food Images in Indian Films / Swikrita Dowerah -- Reconstructing Youth Through Popular Culinary Culture / Anasuya Sreedhar -- The Nostalgic Foodie: Food Photography and the Representation of Assamese Cuisine on Social Media / Gaurav Rajkhowa -- Contributors / Sarit K. Chaudhuri , Debarshi Prasad Nath , and Dhurjjati Sarma -- Index / Sarit K. Chaudhuri , Debarshi Prasad Nath , and Dhurjjati Sarma.

In recent times, Food Studies has emerged as an important interdisciplinary field of enquiry, situated at the convergence point of many disciplines. Food Studies is not just about the study of food itself. One could argue that the trajectory of development of Food Studies has been along the similar lines as Cultural Studies (which also, is not only about the study of culture per se). Food Studies deals with more than the mere production, consumption, aesthetic appreciation, and cataloguing of food-related practices. It pro­vides the vantage point to look at the relationship between food and people from the variety of perspectives offered by disciplines, such as arts, science, management, technology, sociology, cultural studies, economics, health, social justice, literature, anthropology, and history. In the context of these exciting developments, the present volume brings together a collection of essays written by academics and scholars belong­ing to a wide range of disciplines, and who have brought in their subject-expertise towards analysing various dimensions of Food Studies, covering its interface with folklore, social practices, fictional representation, famines, memory, and media studies.

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