Recipes for Cosmopolitanism: Cooking across Borders in the South Asian Diaspora
2010; University of Nebraska Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/fro.0.0071
ISSN1536-0334
Autores Tópico(s)Globalization and Cultural Identity
ResumoCooking across Borders in the South Asian Diaspora shameem blackCookbooks yield many recipes, only some of them for meals.In the hands of Madhur Jaffrey, one of the most prominent Indian culinary authorities in the South Asian diaspora, the cookbook becomes an advice manual on being at home in the world during an age of globalization.Jaffrey's narratives of cooking and eating strive to rewrite the dislocations of diaspora and migration into a rooted sense of place, literally domesticating complicated cultural collisions while accentuating the global intersections that inform the domestic sphere.In Jaffrey's cookbooks, the subject who feels most out of place is invited to understand displacement as a new form of belonging.Born and raised in India, Madhur Jaffrey has spent much of her life in England and the United States.She rose to prominence as a gastronomical expert with An Invitation to Indian Cooking, which fi rst appeared in 1973.This book launched her career as a cookbook writer in British and eventually American publishing circles, making her one of the best known fi gures in the late twentieth-century world of Anglophone Indian cooking.Her celebrity has been bolstered by her work in cinema and television, in particular by her roles in Merchant Ivory fi lms and by her position as a cooking show host for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).A food-infl ected memoir of her childhood in India, Climbing the Mango Trees (2005), confi rms Jaffrey's status as an icon both regal and reassuring in international culinary discourse.However, while Jaffrey is most commonly described as an authority on Indian cooking, a signifi cant percentage of her books are actually devoted to East Asian, pan-Asian, and international recipe collections.In refusing to limit herself even to the vast and varied archive of culinary traditions that India affords, Jaffrey encourages her readers to consider the signifi cance of culinary otherness.Since, in the West, the privilege to write about others has been fully normalized only for white subjects, Jaffrey's cookbooks represent an important refusal of the limitations placed on writers of color. 1
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