Green Chili and Other Impostors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609387983)

Follow a food trail and you'll find yourself crisscrossing oceans. Join M. F. K. Fisher Grand Prize for Excellence in Culinary Writing award-winning author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau as she picks through lost tastes with recipes as codes to everything from political resistance to comfort food and much more. Pinpoint the entry of the Portuguese in India by following green chili trails; find the origins of limes; trace tomatoes and potatoes in India to the Malabar Coast; consider what makes a food, or even a person, foreign and marvel how and when they cease to be.

Food history is a world heritage story that has all the drama of a tense thriller or maybe a mystery. Whose food is it? Who gets to tell its tale? Respect for food history might tame the accusations of appropriation, but what is at stake as food traditions and biodiversity ebb away is the great, and not always good, story of us.


Author: Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
ISBN-10: 1609387988
ISBN-13: 9781609387983
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2021
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d