This book discusses food in the context of the cultural matrix of India. Addressing topical issues in food and food culture, it explores questions concerning th

Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city's work

"Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal"--

Elegantly written by a distinguished culinary historian, Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food--its capture, cu

Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attention to this