Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture

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Asian Australian Studies, 59–62, 224, 226n1 assimilation, 90, 100, 150–56, 178, 180, 187–88, 203, 206–7, 212; and food, 189–92, 194; and fusion cuisine, 23, 198–204, 213–14, 216; and legal exclusion, 192–93; and immigration, 59–62, 161 authenticity, 27, 30–35, 39–41, 43, 61, 125, 177, 181, 187–88, 195–97, 207; and diaspora, 42–43; and ethnic identity, 2–3, 43, 90, 165–67 Bachmann, Monica, 69 Badmash, 181–83 baking, 65, 81, 86, 106–7 Bangladesh: chefs in Britain, 3; American restaurant workers, 205 Bannerji, Chitrita, 91 Bannerjee, Debjani, 91 Baudrillard, Jean, 82–84 Bayoumi, Moustafa , 216 Bendix, Regina, 27 Berges, Paul Mayeda, 89–90 Bhabha, Homi, 46–47, 115 Bhatia, Sunil, 150–51 Bhatt, Sujata, 27, 30, 34–35 Blackness, 2, 110–11, 204–11, 221–22 Bladholm, Linda, 88–89 Bollywood, 5, 69, 133, 138, 142 Book of Rachel, 93–94 Abarca, Meredith, 70 Achaya, K. T., 228n2 affect, 41, 48, 65–67, 159–63, 165–71, 221–25; and citizenship, 177–78; and food, 12, 20, 29, 31–32, 78, 83, 85–86, 92, 107–8, 179, 184 Afro-Orientalism, 225 aggrievement, politics of, 178, 184, 212 Ahmed, Sara, 225 Allison, Dorothy, 50–52 Ammal, Meenakshi, 229n2 amnesia, historical 46–48 Anglo Indians, 57, 229n3 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 221 Appadurai, Arjun, 8, 55–56, 221n2 archaeological approaches to food studies, 18 Arora, Anupama, 218–19 Asian Americans: and African American Studies, 18, 111, 209–10, 214, 223–24, 233n8; and “Children of 1965,” 177–80; and ethnic food pride, 149–50; and food studies, 12–16, 223–24, 228n8; and food writing, 82–86, 163; and foodways, 27–28, 174–77, 186–88; and legal exclusion, 191–93, 206–7; and literary studies, 16–17, 19–22, 29–30, 89–96, 109–12, 118, 136–37, 167, 212, 221; and multiracial identity, 164–65; and race, 13, 170–71, 178, 206–7; and South Asian diasporas, 8–10 Index 250 / index Clegg, Roger, 189–90, 208 Clifford, James, 16 coconuts, 1–3 Collingham, Lizzie, 227n2 colonialism: and sugar, 81–82 Coltrane, John 139–41, 210; and Ravi Shankar, 139, 141 commodification, 8, 82–84, 108–10, 139, 142–42, 160–61, 183–84 Cook, Robin, 3–5 cookbooks, 19, 23, 29–35, 55–64, 77, 83, 163–70, 184–89, 195–214, 227n4, 228n1 cooking shows, 23, 53–55, 137–39, 142–43, 164–72, 184, 188–90, 196, 201–3 Counihan, Carole 10, 18 Counting House, The 123 cuisine: fusion 22–23, 60, 73, 164–65, 169, 184, 186–216, 220, 232–33n6; laborintensive , 143 culinary: and the archive 9–10, 59, 223, 225; fictions, 19; metaphors, 2–5, 12; tourism, 163–67 curry, 1, 76, 110, 151, 185–86, 196, 231n3 Cvetkovich, Ann, 177–78 Dabydeen, David, 123 Davé, Shilpa, 24 David, Esther, 93–94 Dayal, Samir, 40 Deleuze, Gilles, 81, 86 Desai, Jigna, 231n2 deodorization, cultural, 211, 216 Deutrom, Hilda, 59–60, 62–64 Devil Wears Prada, The, 185 Dhingra, Pawan, 24 diaspora: conceptual frameworks of, 8–9, 42, 46–49, 131, 170, 223–24; and gender, 35, 41–42; and ideologies about food, 35, 92; and Jewish contexts, 93–94; and labor, 44–45 disability studies, 139 disidentification, 64–65, 67, 77 Divakaurni, Chitra Bannerjee, 13, 15, 21–22, 85, 88–101, 109–13, 118, 132–37 dog eating, 149, 211–12, 233n7 domestic abuse, 75–77, 98–99, 230n3 domestic manuals. See cookbooks Dornenburg, Andrew, 188 Duplessis, Rachel Blau, 111–12, 223 Dusselier, Jane, 81, 117 Born Confused, 207, 208n7 Bourdain, Anthony, 147, 171–72, 174 Bourdieu, Pierre, 11, 207 Bower, Anne, 134–35 Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS), 23, 187 Braziel, Jana Evans, 48, 84 Brillat Savarin, Jean, 7 Buettner, Elizabeth, 227n3 Butler, Pamela, 231n2 Cardoz, Floyd, 198–202, 206, 208–11, 215–16, 232n4 Carter, Mia, 40 Celebrity Big Brother, 5 Cereus Blooms at Night, 20, 30, 41, 58, 74–78, 81, 220 Ceylon Daily News Cookery Book, 59–60, 62–64 Chadha, Gurinder, 88–89, 119, 166 A Change of Skies, 59–61 chapatti, 115–17, 125, 153, 231n1 Chari, Madhav, 141, 210 Chatterjee, Miabi, 129 Chatterjee, Partha, 34, 51–52 chick lit, 154, 231n2 chicken tikka masala, 3–4, 6 Childs, Lydia Marie, 165, 169 Chin, Frank, 15, 82, 84, 163 Chopra, Deepak, 96–97, 108, 230n2 Chu, Patricia, 231n2 Chughtai, Ismat, 50–51 Chuh, Kandice, 17 chutney, 35, 112, 120; chutney sandwiches, 151 Chutney Popcorn...