Introduction: Anthropology, food and modern life / James L. Watson and Jakob A. Klein -- Part one: Food, self and other. Culinary stereotypes: The gustatory politics of gastro-essentialism / Michael Herzfeld ; Muslim foodways / Maris Gillette ; Food, commensality and caste in South Asia / James Staples ; Jewish foods at the turn of the twenty-first century / Joelle Bahloul ; Approaches to food and migration: Rootedness, being and belonging / Emma-Jayne Abbots ; Local food, local specialties and local identity / Nir Avieli -- Part two: Food security, nutrition and food safety. Observer, critic, activist: Anthropological encounters with food insecurity / Johan Pottier ; Feeding farmers and feeding the nation in modern Malaysia: The political economy of food and taste / Francesca Bray ; Children's food / Jennifer Patico and Eriberto P. Lozada Jr. ; Cow's milk as children's food: Insights from India and the United States / Andrea S. Wiley ; Food, borders and disease / Josephine Smart and Alan Smart ; Rethinking food and its eaters: Opening the black boxes of safety and nutrition / Heather Paxson ; Food provisioning and foodways in postsocialist societies: Food as medium for social trust and global belonging / Yuson Jung ; Feeding the revolution: Public mess halls and coercive commensality in Maoist China / James L. Watson -- Part three: Food as craft, industry and ethics. Church cookbooks: Changing foodways on the American prairie / Rubie Watson ; The Anthropology of cooking / David Sutton ; Supermarket expansion informal retail and food acquisition strategies: An example from rural South Africa / Elizabeth Hull ; Ethical consumption: The moralities and politics of food / Peter Luetchford ; Artisanal foods and the cultural economy: Perspectives on craft, heritage, authenticity and reconnection / Harry G. West ; Practising food anthropology: Moving food studies from the classroom to the boardroom / Melissa L. Caldwell -- Afterward / Cristina Grasseni.