Eating Asian America : : A Food Studies Reader /

Eating Asian America : : A Food Studies Reader / / ed. by Anita Mannur, Martin F. Manalansan, Robert Ji-Song Ku.

Examines the ways our conceptions of Asian American food have been shapedChop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popular imagination. So much so that contentious notions of ethnic authenticity and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Wanda,
Cruz, Denise,
Curtis, Erin M.,
Ho, Jennifer,
Ichikawa, Nina F.,
Kim, Heidi Kathleen,
Ku, Robert Ji-Song,
Lee, Heather R.,
Mabalon, Dawn Bohulano,
Machida, Margo,
Manalansan, Martin F.,
Mannur, Anita,
Matsumoto, Valerie J.,
Orquiza, René Alexander,
Padoongpatt, Mark,
Phillips, Delores B.,
Saed, Zohra,
Siu, Lok,
Wang, Oliver,
Yamashita, Samuel Hideo,
Yano, Christine R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Ku, Robert Ji-Song,
Manalansan, Martin F.,
Mannur, Anita,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • An Alimentary Introduction
  • Part I: Labors of Taste
  • 1. Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles
  • 2. Tasting America
  • 3. A Life Cooking for Others
  • 4. Learning from Los Kogi Angeles: A Taco Truck and Its City
  • 5. The Significance of Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine in Postcolonial Hawai‘i
  • Part II: Empires of Food
  • 6. Incarceration, Cafeteria Style
  • 7. As American as Jackrabbit Adobo
  • 8. Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with Adobo
  • 9. “Oriental Cookery”
  • 10. Gannenshoyu or First-Year Soy Sauce?
  • Part III: Fusion, Diffusion, Confusion?
  • 11. Twenty-First-Century Food Trucks
  • 12. Samsa on Sheepshead Bay
  • 13. Apple Pie and Makizushi
  • 14. Giving Credit Where It Is Due
  • 15. Beyond Authenticity
  • Part IV: Readable Feasts
  • 16. Acting Asian American, Eating Asian American
  • 17. Devouring Hawai‘i
  • 18. “Love Is Not a Bowl of Quinces”
  • 19. The Globe at the Table
  • 20. Perfection on a Plate
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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