Mangalore Stores in Bengaluru provide a unique cultural and nostalgic experience for migrants. Offering regional food products, they facilitate connections to the Mangalore region while addressing identity shifts. These stores create a welcoming environment, enabling customers to reconnect with their roots through familiar tastes and community engagement, becoming vital to urban place-making.
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For this 2025 special issue, the Graduate Journal of Food Studies seeks submissions exploring the intersections of food and loss. We invite graduate students and early career scholars across all disciplines to reflect on how loss—individual, collective, ecological, cultural, or otherwise—reshapes foodways, agricultural practices, and gastronomic imaginaries.
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