ABSTRACT
In this anthology we have an impressive series of cross-national studies stretching over three centuries and much of the earth’s surface. In their introduction, Carolyn de la Peña and Benjamin Lawrance ask: What do they add up to? What big questions in the study of food itself do they address (as opposed to questions in the disciplines in which the authors have been trained)? And is there some more general story to which they contribute? The editors end their introduction by inviting us to consider these as involving the multiple collisions between foods and peoples, both of them in transit, and how this transforms food and eaters into cuisine.
