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<p>In recent times Food Studies has emerged as an important interdisciplinary field of enquiry situated at the convergence point of many disciplines. Food Studies is not just about the study of food itself. One could argue that the trajectory of development of Food Studies has been along the similar lines as Cultural Studies (which also is not only about the study of culture per se). Food Studies deals with more than the mere production consumption aesthetic appreciation and cataloguing of foodrelated practices. It provides the vantage point to look at the relationship between food and people from the variety of perspectives offered by disciplines such as arts science management technology sociology cultural studies economics health social justice literature anthropology and history. In the context of these exciting developments the present volume brings together a collection of essays written by academics and scholars belonging to a wide range of disciplines and who have brought in their subjectexpertise towards analysing various dimensions of Food Studies covering its interface with folklore social practices fictional representation famines memory and media studies. About the Author Sarit K. Chaudhuri is currently working as a Professor of Anthropology and Dean Faculty of Social Sciences in Rajiv Gandhi University Arunachal Pradesh. He was the former Director of IGRMS Bhopal. Recently the Asiatic Society Kolkata gave him Panchanan Mitra Award for his contribution to Indian Anthropology. He has published 30 books and 62 papers in various journals and edited books. His prime research engagements are with the issues concerning indigenous religion art identity cultural heritage dynamics of India’s North East borderlands and ethnographic museum. Debarshi Prasad Nath writes on Culture Films and Literature apart from translating literary texts from Assamese into English. He has published in reputed journals and has also coordinated an online course (ePGpathshala) on ‘Comparative Literature and Culture’. He has recently coedited a book published by Routledge (with Ralph Buck and Barbara Snook) titled Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra: Celebrating Dance in North East India. Dhurjjati Sarma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies Gauhati University Assam. His writings have been published under Springer Nature Sahitya Akademi Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan and in journals like English Forum Rupkatha Journal Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES) Space and Culture India and Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culture.</p>
