Published Paper Details:

Covid 19 and the lockdown it entailed, pushed people indoors, denying them, at least for a while the freedom of relishing food from restaurants and eateries. In the metropolitan spaces, ordering of food online, to some extent, satisfied the urge to eat from people's favourite food joints. A plethora of literature on food, nutrition, healthy eating and cuisine too came out, indicating that food as a primal urge continues to be infected by the Covid 19 threat. Another form of culinary dynamism was the trying of new dishes and sharing their recipes with the fellow gastronomical enthusiasts. This paper is an attempt to examine a few culinary writings such as features, blogs and recipes which have come out during the pandemic days to show how they represent culinary identities and creative affirmation. It also analyses how food and food writing have been modes of tiding over the viral anxiety. Also within the purview of the paper is the scrutiny of home and internet as transformative culinary spaces. The paper analyses the selected narratives from the vantage points of Culinary Studies, Culinary Semiotics and Identity Studies.