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Eating Asian America : a food studies reader
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- Creator
- edited by Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : New York University Press, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- x, 444 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781479869251, 9781479818952, 9781479810239, 1479810231, 1479869252, 147981895X
- OCLC
- ocn844308889, ocn859159746
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- An alimentary introduction / Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur -- Part I. Labors of taste :Cambodian donut shops and the negotiation of identity in Los Angeles / Erin M. Curtis -- Tasting America : the politics and pleasures of school lunch in Hawaiʻi / Christine R. Yano (with Wanda Adams) -- A life cooking for others : the work and migration experiences of a Chinese restaurant worker in New York City, 1920-1946 / Heather R. Lee -- Learning from Los Kogi Angeles : a taco truck and its city / Oliver Wang -- The significance of Hawaiʻi regional cuisine in postcolonial Hawaiʻi / Samuel Hideo Yamashita -- Part II. Empires of food : Incarceration, cafeteria style : the politics of the mess hall in the Japanese American incarceration / Heidi Kathleen Kim -- As American as jackrabbit adobo : cooking, eating, and becoming Filipina/o American before World War II / Dawn Bohulano Mabalon -- Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with adobo : the American relationship with Filipino food, 1896-1946 / René Alexander Orquiza Jr. -- "Oriental cookery" : devouring Asian and Pacific cuisine during the Cold War / Mark Padoongpatt -- Gannenshoyu or first-year soy sauce? Kikkoman soy sauce and the corporate forgetting of the early Japanese American consumer / Robert Ji-Song Ku -- Part III. Fusion, diffusion, confusion? : Twenty-first-century food trucks : mobility, social media, and urban hipness / Lok Siu -- Samsa on Sheepshead Bay : tracing Uzbek foodprints in southern Brooklyn / Zohra Saed -- Apple pie and makizushi : Japanese American women sustaining family and community / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Giving credit where it is due : Asian American farmers and retailers as food system pioneers / Nina F. Ichikawa -- Beyond authenticity : rerouting the Filipino culinary diaspora / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Part IV. Readable feasts : Acting Asian American, eating Asian American : the politics of race and food in Don Lee's Wrack and ruin / Jennifer Ho -- Devouring Hawaiʻi : food, consumption, and contemporary art / Margo Machida -- "Love is not a bowl of quinces " : food, desire, and the queer Asian body in Monique Truong's The book of salt / Denise Cruz -- The globe at the table : how Madhur Jaffrey's world vegetarian reconfigures the world / Delores B. Phillips -- Perfection on a plate : readings in the South Asian transnational queer kitchen / Anita Mannur