This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It revealsâthrough studies on city dwellersâ food practices and representationsâthe inadequacy of an analytical approach to these changes in terms of Westernization, standardization, transition or convergence towards a widely applicable model. Surveys conducted in cities of the Global South revealed that city dwellers are inventing new forms of eating based on a multitude of local and/or exogenous sources.