Anita Mannur is Assistant Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at Miami University of Ohio.

"Mannur skillfully deploys nuanced readings of culinary cultural strategies embedded in and performed by a wide range of South Asian diasporic texts. While numerous fields including queer, feminist, critical race, and diasporic studies will be enriched by this astute book, with her attention to the cultural politics of consumption, production, and difference, Mannur's greatest impact will be on Asian American Studies and its commitment to re-imaginings of race, gender, and citizenship."-Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, and author of Beyond Bollywood

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Food MattersPART I: Nostalgia, Domesticity, and Gender 1. Culinary Nostalgia: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Diaspora 2. Feeding Desire: Food, Domesticity, and Challenges to HeteropatriarchyPART II: Palatable Multiculturalisms and Class Critique 3. Sugar and Spice: Sweetening the Taste of Alterity 4. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Visualizing Class Critique and Female LaborPART 3: Theorizing Fusion in America/b> 5. Eating America: Culture, Race, and Food in the Social Imaginary of the Second Generation 6. Easy Exoticism: Culinary Performances of IndiannessConclusion: Room for More: Multiculturalism’s Culinary Legacies Notes Bibliography Index