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26%OFFAnne Mendelson - Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey - 9780231158602 - V9780231158602
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Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey

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Description for Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey Hardback. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JFCV; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 239 x 29. Weight in Grams: 622.
Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century chop suey restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine to white patrons despite a virulently anti-Chinese climate is one of several pivotal events in Anne Mendelson's thoughtful history of American Chinese food. Chow Chop Suey uses cooking to trace different stages of the Chinese community's footing in the larger white society. Mendelson begins with the arrival of men from the poorest district of Canton Province during the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231158602
SKU
V9780231158602
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About Anne Mendelson
Anne Mendelson is a culinary historian and freelance writer specializing in food-related subjects. She has worked as editorial consultant and collaborator on several cookbooks and has contributed entries to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2005). She is the author of Milk (2008) and Stand Facing the Stove (1996).

Reviews for Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey
Chow Chop Suey is an eye-opener, a book that will give everyone a deep appreciation of the exquisite skill required to produce authentic Chinese food and the sweep of history that brought Chinese cooking to America. Anne Mendelson's prodigious research has given us a highly respectful, insightful, refreshing, wonderfully written, and utterly compelling account of the role and plight of ... Read more

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