Abstract
ABSTRACT Muslim women communicate through food to express family and community belonging. This paper applies Hauck’s concept of the “food voice” (1992) as a tool to unpack multiple aspects of identity for Muslim Indian American women. Cooking together, eating together, and preserving these recipes and dishes is an important part of resistance work for women of color, and the history of racialized women in the United States (Williams-Forson 2006, Abarca 2006). For the Muslim Indian women in Florida with whom I spoke, halal food reveals ethnic, religious, political, and gendered identities. Using charlas culinarias or kitchen chats with a small group of Muslim Indian women, I learned about Muslim women’s contribution to maintaining their ethnic and religious identities in Tampa, Florida, through their food voices.
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