Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction – viewing food through the lens of urban eaters
Audrey Soula, Chelsie Yount-André, Olivier Lepiller, Nicolas Bricas
Part 1. Urban foodways at the cusp of normative injunctionsChapter 1. Feeding children – a focus of tension in the Algerian city of Oran
Mohamed Mebtoul, Hamdia Belghachem, Ouassila Salemi, Malika Bouchenak, Karim Bouziane Nedjadi, Nabil Chaoui, Imad Boureghda
Chapter 2. Getting out of the kitchen! Reshaping gender relations and food practices in Casablanca
Hayat ZirariChapter 3. Can I trust this food? Trust and distrust in eating among middle-class youth in urban India
Shagufa KapadiaChapter 4. Eating out in Mexico City and Guadalajara – some conflict between health and heritage dimensions in Mexico
Liliana Martínez-Lomelí
Box: Promoting local products – representations among food consumers in Lomé (Togo)
Élisa Lomet
Part 2. When food practices dovetail with urban landscapesChapter 5. Urban cuisine in Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo)
Yolande Berton-Ofouémé
Chapter 6. Warung makan – public kitchens at the epicentre of informality in Jakarta
Laura Arciniegas
Chapter 7. “Home and away” – narratives of food and identity in the context of urbanization
in Malaysia
Anindita Dasgupta, Sivapalan Selvadurai, Logendra S. Ponniah
Chapter 8. Sweet commercial drink adoption by urban Chinese middle-class people – between social control and new beverage consumption contexts
Jingjing Ma
Part 3. When the city invents its cuisineChapter 9. Bâbenda – a modernized traditional dish. Urban trajectory of a Burkinabe culinary specialty
Raphaëlle Héron
Chapter 10. Attiéké-garba – good to eat and think about. Social distinction and challenging hygiene standards in the Ivorian urban context
N’da Amenan Gisèle Sédia, Amoin Georgette Konan, Francis AkindèsChapter 11. ‘Food from the pot’. Child nutrition and socialization in two Cameroonian cities
Estelle Kouokam MagneChapter 12. Modern culinary traditions for precarious times. Food insecurity and everyday practices among poor households in Mexico City
Ayari G. Pasquier Merino
Conclusion – what insight emerges to enhance research on transformations in urban food
and eating habits?
Audrey Soula, Chelsie Yount-André, Olivier Lepiller, Nicolas Bricas
List of contributors
