The Migrant's Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households
Book by Krishnendu Ray, Culinary Institute of America
Reviewed by Diditi Mitra, Brookdale Community College
Fall 2005
Diditi Mitra, Professor of Sociology at Brookdale Community College, reviews The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households. The book is about the relationship between food and the construction of identity among middle-class Hindu Bengali-Americans. The study is based on a survey of Bengali-American households and an ethnography of a Bengali-American household. The author also touches upon the gender aspect of who prepares and distributes food.
Read book review at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2005.tb00287.xc.