title: Bringing the immigrant back into the sociology of taste.
abstract: The sociology of food consumption has emerged as a robust field with rich empirical material and engaged theorization about taste, omnivorousness, distinction, and practice theory. Nevertheless, there are continuing empirical and conceptual lacunae. Although transnational and rural-to-urban migrants play a crucial role in food businesses in many global cities, they are mostly unaccounted for in the sociology of taste. Taking the American case, in particular based on data from New York City, this article provides reasons for that gap and shows what might be gained if migrants were accounted for in the urban sociology of taste.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University, 411Lafayette Str., 5th Floor, New York 10003, United States. Electronic address: Krishnendu.ray@nyu.edu.
authors.forename: Krishnendu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ray
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D003710:Demography; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D005518:Food Preferences; D005522:Food Services; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City; D012961:Sociology; D013649:Taste; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: Cultural sociology; Ethnicity; Immigration; Taste