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Anita Mannur examines how cooking, eating, and distributing food can create new forms of kinship, intimacy, and social and political belonging for people of color, queer people, and other marginalized subjects.
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Tiffin Box and Gendered Mobility 23
2. Cooking for One and the Gustatory Gaze 47
3. Eat, Dwell, Orient: Food Networks and Asian/American Cooking Communities 73
4. Tasting Conflict: Eating, Radical Hospitality, and Enemy Cuisine 99
5. Baking and the Intimate Eating Public 129
Epilogue 143
Notes 147
Works Cited 161
Index 171
About the author
Anita Mannur is Associate Professor of English at Miami University, author of
Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture, and coeditor of
Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader.
Summary
Anita Mannur examines how cooking, eating, and distributing food can create new forms of kinship, intimacy, and social and political belonging for people of color, queer people, and other marginalized subjects.
