Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trout still on the menu? Indigenity and cuisine / Duncan Brown -- The hummus wars: local food, Guinness records and the Palestinian-Israeli gastropolitics / Nir Avieli -- Rice, pork and power in the Vietnamese village / Erica J. Peters -- Mem and cookie: the colonial kitchen in Malaysia and Singapore / Cecilia Leong-Salobir -- Modern menus: family, food, health and gender in colonial Bengal / Ishita Banerjee-Dube -- Sweetness, gender, and identity in Japanese culinary culture / Jon D. Holtzman -- Local foods in contemporary China: the case of southwest Hubei / Xu Wu -- From the market to the kitchen and table: food and its many meanings in Dakar / Maria Guadalupe Aguilar Escobedo -- What is human?: food taboo & anthropophagy in northwest Mozambique / Arianna Huhn -- Global mixed race and culinary cultures: interethnic exchanges of food and love at Addis Ababa cafe / Jean Duruz -- The culinary myths of the Mexican nation / Sarah Bakgeller.

"Tracks the interplay of creativity, competition, desire, and nostalgia in the discrete ways people relate to food and cuisine in different societies"--