Daniel E. Bender is Canada Research Chair in Food and Culture, professor of food studies and history, and director of the Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto. Simone Cinotto is an associate professor of modern history and director of the Master of Gastronomy: World Food Cultures and Mobility program at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.
Introduction: Mobility and the Making of World Cuisines
Daniel E. Bender and Simone Cinotto
Mobility and Its Discontents: Historical Perspectives on Cities and Food
Systems from the Paleolithic to the Present
Donna R. Gabaccia
Part One: The Body and the Self
1. Mobility of Food and Ideas in Egypt: Between Sterilization and
Inoculation
Sara El-Sayed and Christy Spackman
2. Let’s Get Phygital: Food Representations on the Move
Signe Rousseau
3. People-Plant Mobilities: Growing Bitter Melon and Bottle Gourd in
Toronto
Sarah Elton
Part Two: Infrastructures and Pathways
4. Gastrofascism in the Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941
Simone Cinotto
5. The Fastest Food in the World: Airplane Cuisine and the "Taste of Pace"
Elizabeth Zanoni
6. From Cloth Oil to Extra Virgin: Italian Olive Oil Before the Invention
of the Mediterranean Diet
Carl Ipsen
7. Mobile and Immobile Histories of Tea
Jayeeta Sharma
Part Three: Mobilities and Immobilities
8. Street Food and Street Life in Immigrant Enclaves: A Case Study of the
Jews of the United States
Hasia R. Diner
9. Rhythms of Mobility: How (Im)Mobility Shapes Rural Food Retail Practices
in South Africa
Elizabeth Hull
10. Immobility: Threats to the Livelihoods of the Poor
Krishnendu Ray
Part Four: Biodiversity, Taste, and Nation
11. From Cornish Pasties to Mexican Pastes: Mobilities across Time and
Space
Sandra C. Mendiola García
12. How the World Eats: Myra Waldo and the Around-the-World Cookbook
Daniel E. Bender
13. Hop Movements: The Global Invention of Craft Beer
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
14. Transnational Journeys and Biocultural Heritage: The Caribbean
Food-Medicine Nexus
Ina Vandebroek
Coda: Food Mobilities in the Time of COVID-19
Locked Down: Writing about Food Mobility while Sheltering in Place
Daniel E. Bender and Simone Cinotto
