Date of Publication :17th January 2024

Abstract: Through the exploration of Eating Habits by Chitrita Banerji as the primary text, I have built my ideas on the issue of Migration as reframing culinary practices, the Edible Chronotope that surround the spatial transformations abiding different locales and specific food contexts that structure a historical lineage. I have explored the limitations of capitalism in the realization of the 'actual' tastes, also emphasizing on the Indianness the latter, constitutes. While foregrounding these imperatives, I have analysed the local and sustainable in a social context, the consumer 'taste', food sociability and the ethnic ritual of adherence. The conversations around the ‘Indigenous Pot’, adaptation, assimilation, and regeneration compel us to think in terms of the global impact on Culinary Tourism and how that transforms our food habits to the extent of making a historical change. Since the text explores culinary practices from all over India, it tends to build around the osmosis of habits, the colonial repercussions and the broadening of cultural reflexivities.

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