We Are What We Eat : : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans /

We Are What We Eat : : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans / / Donna R. Gabaccia.

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Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How ethnicity has influenced American eating habits-and thus, the make-up and direction of the American cultural mainstream-is the story told in We Are What We Eat. It is a comp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Gabaccia, Donna R.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2000
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: What Do We Eat?
  • 1. Colonial Creoles
  • 2. Immigration, Isolation, and Industry
  • 3. Ethnic Entrepreneurs
  • 4. Crossing the Boundaries of Taste
  • 5. Food Fights and American Values
  • 6. The Big Business of Eating
  • 7. Of Cookbooks and Culinary Roots
  • 8. Nouvelle Creole
  • Conclusion: Who Are We?
  • Sources
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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