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Abstract
Brick Lane and the surrounding area have historically attracted successive groups of migrants, one of the most prominent currently being those from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. Following decades of economic depression and racial tension, regeneration efforts have ensured that the area is now inextricably associated with the curry restaurants that line the street. Food is the medium for Brick Lane's transformation, yet the use of food as a centerpiece for development is also ripe with ambivalence. Since the mid-1990s, local Bengali restaurateurs have held an annual Curry Festival to promote local businesses, and to help counter negative publicity. This paper examines the efforts of local restaurateurs to respond to events and to manage the Brick Lane “brand” proactively through the Curry Festival.
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Nicola Frost
Nicola Frost is an anthropologist with an interest in the cultural politics of migrant experience, and the role of third-sector organisations in mediating such experience. She has a special interest in the function of food, and in migrant festivals. She is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the SOAS Food Studies Centre and the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies. Department of Anthropology, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1 0XG, UK ([email protected]).
