Culinary culture in colonial India : a cosmopolitan platter and the middle-class / Utsa Ray.

Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

ix, 274 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index.

Introducing 'foreign' food : changes in the gastronomic culture of colonial Bengal -- The cosmopolitan and the regional : understanding Bengali cuisine -- Aestheticizing labor? : an affective discourse of cooking in colonial Bengal -- Constructing 'Bengali' cuisine : caste, class and communal negotiations -- Fashioning the 'Bengali' middle-class : dilemma of the regional and the sub-regional.