Course

OPEN ELECTIVES-UG (Arts , Humanities and Commerce)

Unit 1

Basics of Food studies – key concepts, interdisciplinarity, and orientations in Food Studies (Historical, cultural, sociopolitical, environmental aspects) – Critical approaches to Food justice, gender, race, power, and class structure – Social constructions based on diet pattern, and food practices – culinary memoirs (discussion)

Unit 2

Food writing – stories, memoirs, blogs, travel writings – structures and representations Jhumpa Lahiri: Indian Takeout

Unit 3

Food in the context of Globalization – Impact of other food cultures on indigenous food practices in India.

Ashis Nandy: The Changing Popular Culture of Indian Food: Preliminary Notes

Unit 4

Sociological implications of food and culinary practices Margaret Mead : The Changing Significance of Food Tamil movie: Kakka Muttai (2014)

Unit 5

Food Fiction, short stories

Bhabani Bhattacharya: So Many Hungers

Gita Hariharan: Remains of the Feast

Course Objectives:

To introduce students to food studies

To familiarise students with the techniques and the narrative styles of food literature To introduce students to different food cultures

Course Outcomes:

CO1: Comprehend the basic framework of food studies.

CO2: Understand food systems and their pluralistic nature.

CO3: Appraise the cultural and literary roots in various forms of food narratives.

CO4: Critically analyze food writings and appreciate varied representations.

CO5: Examine contemporary Indian food culture in the context of globalization.

CO-PO MAPPING:

Evaluation Pattern:

CORE READING:

1. Banerji, Chitrita – Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices – Bloomsbury
2. jumpa (n.d.) – Indian takeout
3. Bhattacharya, – So many hungers – Orient Paperbacks.
4. Hariharan, Githa – The Art of Dying and Other Stories – Penguin Books
5. Malhotra, Simi, et al – Food Culture Studies in India – Springer Nature

SUGGESTED READING:

1. Marte, 2007 – Fodmaps: Tracing Boundaries of ‘Home’ Through Food Relations – Food and Foodways.
2. Mintz, Sidney – Sweetness and The place of sugar in modern history – Penguin Books
3. Gilbert and Porter – Introduction to Eating Words
4. Dianne Jacob (from Will Write for Food) – What, Exactly, Is Food Writing?
5. Terry Eagleton – Edible Ecriture
6. Alfonso Morales – Growing Food and Justice: Dismantling Racism through Sustainable Food Systems
7. Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi – Growing and Producing Food
8. Unbroken 2016 film
9. https://youtu.be/3Ezkp7Cteys?feature=shared
10. Documentary film – We Feed the World. https://youtu.be/KAuA_slgM_w?feature=shared
11. Khilnani, Sunil – The Idea of India – Penguin Books
12. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – Short Film – Zee Entertainment Company Ltd