Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Taste in Global Perspective, Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz (Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico) -- Part One: Taste and the Politics of Identity -- 1. Food, Taste and Identity in the Global Arena, Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz (Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico) -- 2. Centralization and Standardization of Taste: Dashi in Japan, Yoshimi Osawa (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) -- 3. Heritagization of Fermented Taste in Southern Fukui, Japan, Shingo Hamada (Osaka Shoin Women's University, Japan) -- 4. Tides High and Low: The Changing Landscapes of Gongfu Cha Tea Culture in Contemporary China, Lanlan Kuang (University of Central Florida, USA) -- 5. Italian Cheese in the Global Heritage Arena, Cristina Grasseni (University of Leiden, the Netherlands) -- 6. The Gastronomic Capital of the World: Food, Politics, and Identity in Lyon, Rachel E. Black (Connecticut College, USA) -- Part Two: Translocal and Transnational Politics of Taste and Identity -- 7. Fetid Flesh and Fragrant Fare: Food, Scandal, and Identity in Contemporary Bengal, Ishita Banerjee-Dube (The College of Mexico, Mexico) -- 8. Tasting "Innovation": The Politics of Taste in Contemporary Restaurant Food in Seville, Spain, Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz and Gabriela Vargas Cetina (Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico) -- 9. The Corn-Coconut Divide: Taste and the Cultural Politics of Gastronationalism in Belize, Lyra H. Spang (Taste Belize Tours, Belize) -- 10. Street Food to Restaurant: Politics of Eating and Cultural Heritage in Antigua Guatemala, Walter E. Little (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) -- 11. Popular Urban Taste and Mass Culture: Chancho and Terremoto in Chile, Isabel Aguilera (University of Tarapacá, Chile) and Alejandra Alvear (University of Chile, Chile) -- Part Three: The Global-Local Politics of Taste -- 12. Foreign Influences in Polish Culinary Taste during the Twentieth Century, Katarzyna J. Cwiertka (Leiden University, the Netherlands) -- 13. Kimchi's Transnational Journey: Tastes of Authenticity and Ambiguity, Sonia Ryang (Rice University, USA) -- 14. Tasting Quinoa: From Indigenous Food to "Healthy" U.S. Dining, Christina Morris and Clare A. Sammells, (Bucknell University, USA) -- 15. The Taste of the Mediterranean Diet. Food, Taste and Identity in the Region of Campania, South Italy, Rossella Galletti, (University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa) -- 16. Soylent: The Cultural Politics of Functional and Tasteless Food, Andrew Ofstehage (Cornell University, USA) -- Afterword, Heritage-Making after the U.S. Century, Krishnendu RAY (NYU Steinhardt, USA) -- Bibliography -- Index