Arijit Sen decided to study food because he needed to rationalize his gluttony. But soon, thankfully, he realized that food is not merely an object to be consumed but also a system of relations between people, materials, and places. This timely realization led to a Ph.D. in Architecture from U. C. Berkeley. Now he analyzes the politics of place and the social construction of ethnicity among immigrants in America. An Associate Professor of Architecture, he teaches architectural design, urbanism and cultural landscapes at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He has written on immigrant cultural landscapes, immigrant Muslim spaces and yes, food. www.senspeaks.wordpress.com www.TheFieldSchool.weebly.com www.BLCprogram.org