Food and Hunger in the South Asian context have long been associated only with sustenance, domesticity, gluttony and survival. This issue invites exploration of how food and food preparation can function as an erotic and intimate practice, facilitating alternative and queer modes of kinship. 

In the era of “food porn” and mukbangs, this issue urges you to re-imagine food as feeding and generating intimate appetites that question and subvert norms of desire, companionship and social order. What forms of kinship and belonging are created with food and food making? How do food intimacies blur the public and the private? In an age where aesthetic and glamorised eating is termed as food and ‘feed porn’, what is the relation between food and desire, the pornographic and the pornologic? What queer solidarities can be forged through food and food making? How do eating practices make and unmake our notions of purity, caste and pleasure?

While food and hunger are the core of our existence, through this issue, we want to sink our teeth into appetites that are rarely satiated and often suppressed.