WORLD FOOD HABITS BIBLIOGRAPHY

                FOOD AND CULTURE

South Asia

Balagopal P. 2000. Indian and Pakistani Food Practices. 2nd edition. American Dietetic Association & American Diabetes Association. [foodways; diet; South Asia; North America; Indian-Americans; Pakistani-Americans]
Banerji C. 2001. The Hour of the Goddess, Memories of Women, Food and Ritual in Bengal. Seagull Books. [cookery; food habits; gender relations; religion; South Asia; India]
Banerji C. 2006. Feeding the Gods: Memories of Food and Culture in Bengal. Seagull. [social relations; ritual; South Asia; India; Bengal]
Dreyfuss M, Stoltzfus R, West K. 2000. Hookworms, Malaria, and Vitamin a Deficiency Contribute to Anemia and Iron Deficiency among Pregnant Women in the Plains of Nepal. Journal of Nutrition 130(10):2527-. [malnutrtion; disease; maternal nutrition; South Asia; Nepal]
Goto R. 2002. Poor Intestinal Permeability in Mildly Stunted Nepali Children: Associations with Weaning Practices and Giardia Lamblia Infection. British Journal of Nutrition 88(2):141-149. [ breastfeeding; lactose digestion; growth; malnutrition; malabsorption; disease; diarrhoea; South Asia; Nepal]
Griffiths P, Matthews Z, Hinde A. 2002. Gender, Family, and the Nutritional Status of Children in Three Culturally Contrasting States of India. Social Science and Medicine 55:775-790. [child nutrition; South Asia]
Hepburn SJ. 2008. The Dangers of Foreign Bodies: Contamination of Travelers in and out of Nepal. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 11(2):191-206. [social relations; caste; South Asia; Nepal]
Lakshmi AJ, Begum K, Saraswathi G, et al. 2005. Food Beliefs and Dietary Practices of Traditional Rural Households near Mysore. Science and Culture 71(7/8):311-316. [South Asia; India]
Roger D. 2000. The Middle East and South Asia. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1140-1151. Cambridge University Press. [history; Islam; Middle East; West Asia; South Asia; Egypt; Iran; Turkey; India]
Sen CT. 2004. Food Culture in India. Greenwood Press. [foods; foodways; South Asia]
Shetty PS. 2002. Nutrition Transition in India. Public Health Nutrition 5:175-182. [dietary change; demographic transition; urbanisation; fat intakes; South Asia ]
Siegel B. 2010. Learning to Eat in a Capital City Constructing Public Eating Culture in Delhi. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 13:71-90. [restaurants; commensality; eating attitudes; South Asia; India; New Delhi]

see South Asia Archive for items published before 02/2011

Cultural geographers Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio visited twenty-five families in twenty-one countries to create this fascinating look at what people around the world eat in a week.	Main Page	Exceptional Book Click on image for details
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	A guide to help "interpret the menus of Indian restaurants in North America"	details how the food industry--through lobbying, advertising, and the co-opting of experts--influences our dietary choice