Introduction: foodways, 'foodism,' or foodscapes? navigating the local/global and food/culture divides -- Milk for "growth": global and local meanings of milk consumption in China, India, and the United States -- Appetites without prejudice: U.S. Foreign restaurants and the globalization of American food between the wars -- Virginia ham: the local and global of colonial foodways -- Making white bread by the bomb's early light: anxiety, abundance, and industrial food power in the early Cold War -- "To avoid this mixture": rethinking pulque in colonial Mexico City -- "To make a curry the India way": tracking the meaning of curry across eighteenth-century communities -- The "coffee doctors": the language of taste and the rise of Rwanda's specialty bean value -- Fast food and nutritional perceptions in the age of 'globesity': perspectives from the provincial Philippines -- A house of honey: white sugar, brown sugar, and the taste for modernity in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia

1. Gastronomy
2. Food
3. Food habits
4. Food supply
5. Nutrition