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Journal Article
Of grandmothers and culinary realms in Salt and Pepper and Silver Linings: Celebrating our Grandmothers
2024
Overview
Literary works of all kinds, particularly those categorised as life writings, have explored and narrativized poignant memories of grandmothers and their comfort cuisines. This article examines the relationship between food and grandmothers in Salt and Pepper and Silver Linings: Celebrating our Grandmothers (2019) by Abhirami Girija Sriram and Babitha Marina Justin, a compilation of bittersweet memories of forty-four young women about their grandmothers. Despite the cultural differences, what is common in all the writings are anecdotes of grandmothers cooking, feeding or eating. These accounts of the daily labour of food preparations are not merely fond recollections of childhood memories. Rather, they serve as narratives that shed light on the presence of social, cultural and gender disparities that dictate the assignment of food responsibilities and food obligations to femininity and its effects in the lives of older women. This essay, therefore, is an attempt to analyse the 'gender performativity' of the grandmothers especially through the means of food. It also looks into the culinary habits of the grandmothers which granted them a sense of empowerment when coupled with the privileges of their age and the culinary metaphors employed to convey the same. The paper further explores the elements of 'culinary nostalgia' in the book and the features that categorise it as a 'feminised food memoir' based on the concepts by Mark Swislocki and Nandini Dhar respectively.
