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Arjun Appadurai. How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India. Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 30, no. 1, 1988, 3-24. Available at: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1140/f591dfb9f991c38e9690ebc665c018257c34.pdf
How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India
Cookbooks are considered as the elite literature, which narrates the story of hierarchy, ethnicity, tradition and culture. Every recipe in the book is a careful description of edibility, household budget, and the logic of meals, domestic ideology and market vagaries. Cookbook display the expert knowledge on the subject through which the author tries to connect with a specific hierarchical group. Cookbooks are the display of the running trend or the influence of the dominating society. For example, cookbooks, which were written in the preindustrial era in the agrarian civilization of Europe, China and the Middle East, are Royal milieu. These cuisines are considered costly...