Culinary Culture in Colonial India : A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class (Hardcover)

List of images, maps and tables; Introduction; 1. Introducing 'foreign' food: changes in the gastronomic culture of colonial Bengal; 2. The cosmopolitan and the regional: understanding Bengali cuisine; 3. Aestheticizing labor? An affective discourse of cooking in colonial Bengal; 4. Constructing 'Bengali' cuisine caste: class and communal negotiations; 5. Fashioning the 'Bengali' middle class: dilemma of the regional and the subregional; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the author.