For immigrants, food and clothing are powerful symbols of connection to their cultural roots, serving as tangible reminders of home and identity. Traditional recipes and culinary practices become motifs for immigrants to maintain a connection to their cuisine, find comfort and preserve their heritage. This connection also serves as a bridge between their past and present, allowing them to maintain ties with their homeland. India is a land where spices are not just ingredients; they are an integral part of its cultural, historical, and culinary heritage. Immigrants can delve into the rich tapestry of flavours, aromas, and colours that define Indian cuisine. Clothing serves as a marker of identity for immigrants and is a way to honour their heritage, navigate their sense of belonging and express cultural pride. Clothes including sarees, turban and dupattas make a statement about their identity, values, and roots, contributing to the rich tapestry of diversity in their new land. The paper attempts to analyse Shauna Singh Baldwin’s three short stories— “Rawalpindi 1919,” “Montreal 1962,” “Devika” and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices to analyse the significance of food and clothes in the formation of culture and how immigrants diversely use food and clothes to retain their lost culture, to resist and to assimilate into the new culture of the foreign land. The paper will explore food and clothing as cultural signifiers that signify rootedness and rootlessness simultaneously, territory and deterritorialized community culture, insiders and outsiders, and the homeland and the host land. These binaries coalesce into the diasporic space—an in-between space of contestation, disjuncture, and difference.