Culinary Fictions

For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted.  Culinary Fictions  provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows use to describe Indians abroad. When an immigrant mother in Jhumpa Lahiri’s  The Namesake  combines Rice Krispies, Planters peanuts, onions, salt, lemon juice, and green chili peppe