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Arjun Appadurai, Gastromythology, and the Construction of National Cuisine – GASTROMYTHOLOGY

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Indo-American anthropologist, Arjun Appadurai’s seminal essay, “How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India,” provides a crucial theoretical framework for understand…

Indo-American anthropologist, Arjun Appadurai’s seminal essay, “How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India,” provides a crucial theoretical framework for understanding how culinary narratives shape national identity. His insights on the textualization of cuisine, the role of cookbooks in cultural standardization, and the symbolic dimensions of food intersect with Arup K. Chatterjee’s notion of gastromythology, a concept that examines how culinary myths create, sustain, and manipulate cultural identities. Appadurai argues that cookbooks function as instruments of…

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