A Lingering Taste in my Mouth

Abstract

This autoethnographic work seeks to explore food anthropologically and interrogate the power relations imbued in ideas of spice. Through the embodied experience of having a meal at Maisha, an “Authentic Indian & Seafood Restaurant”, this work centres the ways in which senses, particularly taste, create cultural meanings. Crucially, through a consideration of the author’s positionality and St Andrews as a field site, this work analyses the role of globalisation, consumption, and colonialism in creating cultural meanings of food and spice.