Culinary culture in colonial India : a cosmopolitan platter and the middle-class /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ray, Utsa (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Food habits > India > Bengal > History. Food habits > Social aspects > India > Bengal > History. Middle class > India > Bengal > History. Bengal (India) > Social life and customs. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introducing 'foreign' food : changes in the gastronomic culture of colonial Bengal
The cosmopolitan and the regional : understanding Bengali cuisine
Aestheticizing labor? : an affective discourse of cooking in colonial Bengal
Constructing 'Bengali' cuisine : caste, class and communal negotiations
Fashioning the 'Bengali' middle-class : dilemma of the regional and the sub-regional.