Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction - viewing food through the lens of urban eaters -- Part 1. Urban foodways at the cusp of normative injunctions -- Chapter 1. Feeding children - a focus of tension in the Algerian city of Oran -- Chapter 2. Getting out of the kitchen! Reshaping gender relations and food practices in Casablanca -- Chapter 3. Can I trust this food? Trust and distrust in eating among middle-class youth in urban India -- Chapter 4. Eating out in Mexico City and Guadalajara - some conflict between health and heritage dimensions in Mexico -- Part 2. When food practices dovetail with urban landscapes -- Chapter 5. Urban cuisine in Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) -- Chapter 6. Warung makan - public kitchens at the epicentre of informality in Jakarta -- Chapter 7. "Home and away" - narratives of food and identity in the context of urbanization in Malaysia -- Chapter 8. Sweet commercial drink adoption by urban Chinese middle-class people - between social control and new beverage consumption contexts -- Part 3. When the city invents its cuisine -- Chapter 9. Babenda - a modernized traditional dish Urban trajectory of a Burkinabe culinary specialty -- Chapter 10. Attieke-garba - good to eat and think about Social distinction and challenging hygiene standards in the Ivorian urban context -- Chapter 11. ’Food from the pot’ Child nutrition and socialization in two Cameroonian cities -- Chapter 12. Modern culinary traditions for precarious times. Food insecurity and everyday practices among poor households in Mexico City -- Conclusion - what insight emerges to enhance research on transformations in urban food and eating habits? -- List of contributors.