In my ethnographic monograph, Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia (Berghahn Books, published 2019), I explore the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia through the lens of food. As an everyday object of consumption, food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity in light of recent events, such as the rise in support for secessionist politics and changing identity politics in Spain as a whole. Here I would like to discuss some of my motivations for studying the topic and my approach, and my aims with the book.