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 injunctions

Chapter 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 Zirari

Chapter 3. Can I trust this food? Trust and distrust in eating among middle-class youth in urban India

Shagufa Kapadia

Chapter 4. Eating out in Mexico City and Guadalajara – some conflict between health and heritage dimensions in Mexico

Liliana Martínez-Lomelí

Part 2. When food practices dovetail with urban landscapes

Chapter 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 cuisine

Chapter 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 Akindès

Chapter 11. ‘Food from the pot’. Child nutrition and socialization in two Cameroonian cities

Estelle Kouokam Magne

Chapter 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