Introduction: Mobility and the Making of World CuisinesDaniel E. Bender and Simone Cinotto Mobility and Its Discontents: Historical Perspectives on Cities and Food Systems from the Paleolithic to the PresentDonna R. Gabaccia Part One: The Body and the Self 1. Mobility of Food and Ideas in Egypt: Between Sterilization and Inoculation Sara El-Sayed and Christy Spackman 2. Let’s Get Phygital: Food Representations on the Move Signe Rousseau 3. People-Plant Mobilities: Growing Bitter Melon and Bottle Gourd in TorontoSarah Elton Part Two: Infrastructures and Pathways 4. Gastrofascism in the Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935–1941Simone Cinotto 5. The Fastest Food in the World: Airplane Cuisine and the “Taste of Pace”Elizabeth Zanoni 6. From Cloth Oil to Extra Virgin: Italian Olive Oil Before the Invention of the Mediterranean DietCarl Ipsen 7. Mobile and Immobile Histories of TeaJayeeta Sharma Part Three: Mobilities and Immobilities 8. Street Food and Street Life in Immigrant Enclaves: A Case Study of the Jews of the United States Hasia R. Diner 9. Rhythms of Mobility: How (Im)Mobility Shapes Rural Food Retail Practices in South AfricaElizabeth Hull 10. Immobility: Threats to the Livelihoods of the PoorKrishnendu Ray Part Four: Biodiversity, Taste, and Nation 11. From Cornish Pasties to Mexican Pastes: Mobilities across Time and SpaceSandra C. Mendiola García 12. How the World Eats: Myra Waldo and the Around-the-World CookbookDaniel E. Bender 13. Hop Movements: The Global Invention of Craft BeerJeffrey M. Pilcher 14. Transnational Journeys and Biocultural Heritage: The Caribbean Food-Medicine NexusIna Vandebroek Coda: Food Mobilities in the Time of COVID-19 Locked Down: Writing about Food Mobility while Sheltering in PlaceDaniel E. Bender and Simone Cinotto

“Food is impossible to study from any one perch alone. Cuisines, tastes, traditions, and innovations are all interrelated and shaped by a myriad of factors, including personal taste buds, access, economics, technologies, trade routes, environment, and, of course, culture and power. Food Mobilities is special for the ways that it focuses on food in action, which means people, nature, and ideas in action.”