Paper: 978-1-64315-121-2

eISBN: 978-1-64315-122-9

Across diasporic communities, food serves as a repository of memory, a marker of identity, and a powerful means of creating and sustaining belonging in the face of displacement. Food, Diaspora, and Memory brings together an international collection of contributors to explore how food mediates the complex relationships among migration, culture, family, and place. The essays explore how recipes, meals, culinary traditions, and food narratives function as living archives through which individuals and communities maintain connections to ancestral homelands while simultaneously creating new forms of belonging in their adopted homes. Together, the contributors reveal food as both a deeply personal and profoundly social medium through which diasporic communities navigate questions of identity, memory, and cultural negotiation. 

By bringing together global perspectives on food, diaspora, and cultural resilience, Food, Diaspora, and Memory offers a timely contribution to some of the most pressing social and cultural questions of our time and demonstrates the continuing power of food to sustain communities across borders, generations, and histories. 

Zoë Antoinette Eddy is an anthropologist, artist, and activist currently working as an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She is also a counselor with a specialty in youth and adolescent counseling.

Label: The Lever Initiative

License: CC BY-NC-ND