Farm to Fingers: The Culture and Politics of Food in Contemporary India

ISBN-13: 9781108416290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 290 str.

Kiranmayi Bhushi

Opis

"Enquires into the ways in which food and its production and consumption are enmeshed in aspects of human existence and society, taking India and its interaction with food as its focal point"--

Spis treści

List of figures and Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction Kiranmayi Bhushi; 2. The making of 'edible animal source foods' and its contemporary reality in Delhi Estelle Fourat; 3. Appropriating the cow: beef and identity politics in contemporary India James Staples; 4. Eating Akhuni in India Dolly Kikon; 5. Health, standardization and 'Bengali' sweets Ishita Dey; 6. Treating children, feeding junk food: an inquiry into a middle class project Anjali Bhatia; 7. Diaspora dish: cooking, writing, and creating identities in food-blogs Sucharita Sarkar; 8. Measuring hunger: debates on 'adequate' diet in colonial North India Sanjay Sharma; 9. Managing food: India's experience with the public distribution system Deepankar Basu and Debarshi Das; 10. Food sovereignty: the future of food Radha Gopalan; Contributors; Index.