Border food and food on the border: meaning and practice in Mexican haute cuisine

A bite of nostalgia: The influence of nostalgia in consumers’ loyalty intentions at traditional restaurants

“…Chen and Sun (2008) supported that tourists who held positive attitudes towards the inheritance of local food could affect their overall satisfaction and induce a sense of nostalgia. Walker (2013) noted in their study that tourists were motivated by local and regional cuisines with seasonal delicacies, and experienced a high level of nostalgia. Similarly, Leong, Yeh, Hsiao, and Huan (2015) claimed that that tourists who were attracted by Macau's cuisine and heritage attributes experienced a sense of nostalgia.…”

Introducing a Special Issue on Rescuing Taste from the Nation: Oceans, Borders, and Culinary Flows

“…Variations in boiled rice and fish sauce demarcate ethnic and regional differences along the Mekong River, though in border countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma these ingredients are nonetheless incorporated into an "emerging 'national' culture" (Lefferts 2005: 248). There is an ideological imperative to fix gustemic identity at borders (see, for instance, Guy 2007;Mookherjee 2008;Walker 2013), but such projects of nation making are political and cultural works in progress revealed by narratives of taste and tradition coexisting among many other practices and possibilities, some palpable, others unpalatable.…”

Social geography I

“…Not completely distinct from the food justice literature is a social geographies of food literature that has taken up the question of the relationship between space and identity. Within this body of work, scholars seek to explicate concepts tied to food politics, from the local (MacDonald, 2013) to the national (Walker, 2013) and from the biosocial (Guthman, 2012a) to the psychosocial (Jackson et al, 2013). The complex nexus of space-identity relations is interrogated through the production and consumption of foods and food places (Dudley, 2011;Yeh and Lama, 2013), everyday performances of race (Alkon and McCullen, 2011), as well as through the broader political-economies of food ecologies and practices (Brice, 2014;Poe et al, 2014).…”