ABSTRACT
Ephemeral media and increasing innovations in communicative technologies have created new embodied practices and relationships to space. This chapter investigates a migrant community’s production of space through the subject of food by analysing social media trends of Nepalis in Britain. These trends reveal the building of a diasporic consciousness that connects disparate cultures through colonial histories and settlement patterns of Gurkha military families. Online engagements reveal how encounters with British definitions of ethnicity allow Nepalis to move between multiple senses of being Asian. Their digital food-related practices reflect how cuisines are explored and exploited based on notions of racial or geographical affinity. This chapter argues how temporal aspects of online engagement are key to uncovering the ways we harness, express, and evoke the senses with new affordances. British Nepali culinary celebrations online connect different places to London, embedding the city with new memories, senses and tastes.
