CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Fareed, Aneera |
|---|---|
| Title | Mango and Masala Matters: Tastes for Authenticity at Budapest's Restaurants |
| Summary | This research examines the recent proliferation of South-Asian restaurants in Budapest and engages with the concerns for authenticity that are expressed by people at these social sites of eating. It offers an overview of a local culinary outcome of a cuisine, broadly identified as Indian, by highlighting the social interactions and meanings that underlie its consumption and production. This is achieved through a series of ethnographic observations at twelve different restaurants, and an engagement with the sensory and symbolic tastes- of place, otherness, tradition and a specific cuisine. Thus, the thesis argues that authenticity of food is socially constructed and ascribed through the language of food. Like cultural identity, it is defined in relational terms. By delving into the social relations that specific foods encode, the project explains the reasons for claims of authenticity and demonstrates the inseparability of food from social life. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel; Aistara, Guntra Anda |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/fareed_aneera.pdf |
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