Note on Transliteration
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Food with Saints: An Aspect of Hindu Gastrosemantics
R. S. Khare
2. You Are What You Eat: The Anomalous Status of Dog-Cookers in Hindu Mythology
David Gordon White
3. Sharing the Divine Feast: Evolution of Food Metaphor in Marathi Sant Poetry
Vidyut Aklujkar
4. Mountain of Food, Mountain of Love: Ritual Inversion in the Annakuta Feast at Mount Govardhan
Paul M. Toomey
5. Pancamirtam : God's Washings as Food
Manuel Moreno
6. Food Essence and the Essence of Experience
H. L. Seneviratne
7. Annambrahman: Cultural Models, Meanings, and Aesthetics of Hindu Food
R. S. Khare
8. Food for Thought: Toward an Anthology of Food Images
A. K. Ramanujan
Glossary
Contributors
Index