Nilanjana Debnath
Assistant Professor of English, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation.
Email: njd.nilanjana1@gmail.com
Volume 13, Number 4, 2021 I Full-Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.11
Abstract
Food Studies has been a prominent part of Interdisciplinary Studies in the West from the 1980s and it is catching up in India as well. A close study of recipes and other forms of food writing can offer insights into the everyday culinary negotiations and the constitution of a cultural ‘tradition’ of taste. These insights of gastropolitics may help us better understand the functioning of subliminal hegemonic technologies and everyday resistance to the same. In our era of postcolonial globalization, where domination and subjugation happen through micro-politics of power, our readings of food writing may open new doors of reading and theorizing heritage and history.
Keywords: Food writing, recipes, cookbooks, Bengal, tradition, everyday, embodiment, taste.