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What we choose to eat or refuse to eat, and how we eat it defines us as much as our culture and language. If we are what we eat, then the other is what he is because of what he eats or refuses to eat. Cuisine creates a community; it also keeps communities apart. Food defines, both positively an negatively. Unfortunately […] the dialectics of food, as culture, as cause and effect of socio-economic changes, as history, has not exercised the minds of most scholars.
“Castes, Cuisines and Confluence: A Brief Note on Malyali Culinary History,” the introduction to a Keralan cookbook
