The literary engagement with the edible world demands complex ways of thinking about food. The migrant food culture of any community is invested with heavy emotional ambivalence as their original food culture and codes of consumption are increasingly diminished, and are often replaced with new diverse culture. The memory of the land where they lived and the aspiration to get to their destined homeland instil a cultural ambiguity in their life. The entanglement of the physical and emotional state of being for migrant communities is often marked by issues such as hygiene and purity informing their culinary tradition. The food, behaviour, norms and values become important nodal points of reference in the formation of a sense of community and belonging.. The research aims to examine the constructed quality of Indian Jewish identities with special attention to space, domesticity and shared notions of purity, placing special attention to the politics of production and consumption of food and how they become markers of extended embodiment. It draws on memory studies and nostalgia in examining how objects of preservation and consumption take up affective associations that are existentially as well as culturally negotiated.