Amir Sayadabdi

Amir Sayadabdi is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the Victoria University of Wellington. He is interested in anthropology of food and its intersection with gender studies, migration studies, and studies of race, ethnicity, and nationalism. He is the inaugural winner of the Neda Nobari Prize in Iranian Diaspora Studies, for the same work from which this book is drawn. He is also a board member of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), is a member of the Editorial Collective of Commoning Ethnography and is the Associate Editor of the Food and Foodways series (Edinburgh University Press).