Food-related occupations connect people with bodies, traditions, rituals, community, family, and caring. Food holds sensate memories and may vividly evoke the past. For those who live in a diaspora, sharing an ethnic heritage yet displaced from a homeland, food may comprise a major means of cultural transmission. This qualitative study explores the meanings of food and food-related occupations for 13 Goan women in Toronto, Canada. Catholic Goans, an ethnic group borne of Portuguese colonization of an area in what is now Western India, have few unique markers of ethnic distinction from other Indians. In this context, Goan cuisine becomes a powerful boundary marker, and food-related occupations carry a particular salience in cultural maintenance. Skill in culinary occupations may then be experienced as a form of power or ‘currency’ for women, because they are able to produce a highly significant symbol of culture. https://www.academia.edu/5619703/Occupational_Meanings_of_Food_Preparation_for_Goan_Canadian_Women --
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