Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction: Diaspora, Identity, and the Everyday Politics of Food Food(ways) and Diasporic Identity Nation, Gender, Memory Theoretical Framework Contextualising the Iranian Diaspora A Census Overview of Iranians of New Zealand Fieldwork Structure of the Book Part 1: Nation Everyday Nationhood Chapter 1: Talking the Nation; Choosing the Nation Talking the Nation Choosing the Nation Chapter 2: Consuming the Nation; Performing the Nation Consuming the Nation Performing the Nation Unperforming the Nation Part II: Gender Women, Food, and Culinary Capital Men, Food, and Cleft Habitus Chapter 3: Women Persian Culinary Capital Chapter 4: Men Part III: Memory Home-building and Nostalgia Home and Memory 'Gharibi' vs. 'Ghorbat': Not Feeling at Home vs. Not Being at Home in the Iranian Diasporic Context Ghorbat from the Bourdieusian Perspective Chapter 5: Individual Memory Chapter 6: Collective Memory Muharram, Ashura, and Nazri Rituals Nazri-pazoon Selective Remembrance of an Idealised Home Conclusion: Food, Migration, and the Making of Diasporic Worlds References Index.