Transnational Culinaria
SUNY PRESS, AUGUST 2026
CULINARIA: Women of Color Rewriting our Food Stories
CONTENTS
Foreword: Psyche Williams-Forsen
Introduction: Farha Ternikar, Janaka B. Lewis, and Stephanie Y. Evans
Part I. Transnational Feminist Foodways: Culinary Placemaking in the Global South
1. Desiree Lewis, Transnational Struggles and the Olfactory Politics of Food in South Africa
2. Rejoice Chipuroro, International Year of Millets: Centering African Women Farmers’ Food Ethnographies
3. Ayah Abo-Basha, The Calorie in Mandate and Contemporary Palestine: Colonial Development, Debility Politics, and Women’s Food work
4. Tina Beyene, A Tale of Shiro: A Gateway to Generational Gender and Class Trauma
5. Khanum Shaikh, Who Will Heat Up the Food? Middle-class Domesticity and Kitchen Work in Pakistan’s Feminist Protests
6. Azza Basarudin, “Makan Sampai Mati” (Eat to Death): A Malaysian Food Archive
7. Brittany Power, Eating Jewish in the Kingdom of Morocco: Jewish Cooking, Moroccan Cooking, and the Idea of Moroccan Jewish Food
Rejoice Chipuriro
8. Chie Sakakibara, “Whales and Seals and Caribou, Oh My!”: Niqipiaq (Native Food), Food Sovereignty, and Community Resilience in Arctic Alaska
9. Suchara Kanjilal, “Lost” Indian Recipes: Locating Caste in the Feminized Culinary Archive
Part II. Intersectional Feminism, Black Foodways, and Wellness
10. Hanna Garth, Culinary Clubs and the Cookbooks of Early Black Californians 1900-1936
11. Janaka B. Lewis, Growing to Live: Black Women, Personal Wellness, and Food Justice
12. Patricia E. Clark, Foodways, Feminisms, and Afrofuturity
13. Amani Stewart, The Poetics of Black Foodscapes: Black Women’s Cultural Ways of Knowing and Doing Food
14. Amari Pollard, Cooking to the Bone: How to Preserve the Marrow of Our Roots through Caretaking and Cultural Immersion for Jamaican Women
Part III. Immigrant Feminist Foodways: Culinary Placemaking in the Global North
15. Paolina Lu, Catching Taste, Making Place: Foraging for Grasshoppers from Laos to Des Moines
16. Yamuna Sangarasivam, Queer Culinary Transmigrations: Nourishing Resistance and Renewal
17. Elora Chowdhury, What does Food sustain?: Family, Class, and Culture in South Asian Identity-Making
18. Farha Ternikar, Halal Biryani, Muslim American Women and Resistance
19. Mónica B. Ocasio Vega, "¿Mangú dominicano o fufú de plátano? displacement, flavor, and national cuisines": food in the Dominican Republic and its diaspora
Afterword: Meredith Abarca