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This volume is a rare treat, bringing together leading scholars and new voices from around the world to explore how food evokes pasts and futures, from the most intimate and personal to the most encompassing identities. It will become a standard reference in the field for the foreseeable future. --David Sutton, Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, USA This is an important contribution to the field of social and cultural studies on taste. In 25 chapters, we find out how memory and imagination entwine to establish our experience of time, space, and place, from crackers to arancino/a and apples, domestic to professional kitchens, and routine commensality to special celebrations. --Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz, Professor of Anthropology, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico This book is a perfect teaching tool for studying food, memory, and imagination. It makes the productive and refreshing argument that memory and heritage can be unstable while imagination can be real. --Krishnendu Ray, Associate Professor of Food Studies, New York University, USA

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Beth M. Forrest is Professor of Liberal Arts at the Culinary Institute of America, USA and President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Greg de St. Maurice is Assistant Professor at Keio University, Japan and Vice President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society.

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