Introduction: Food matters -- Nostalgia, domesticity and gender. Culinary nostalgia: authenticity, nationalism, and diaspora -- Feeding desire: food, domesticity, and challenges to heteropatriarchy -- Palatable multiculturalisms and class critique. Sugar and spice: sweetening the taste of alterity -- Red hot chili peppers: visualizing class critique and female labor -- Theorizing fusion in America. Eating America: culture, race, and food in the social imaginary of the second generation -- Easy exoticism: culinary performances of Indianness -- Conclusion: Room for more: multiculturalism's culinary legacies.
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