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14%OFFDonna R. Gabaccia - We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans - 9780674001909 - V9780674001909
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We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans

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Description for We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans Paperback. The author invites the reader to consider: if we are what we eat, who are we? Amid wrangling over immigration and tribal differences in the USA, this text argues that on a basic level, in the way life is sustained and pleasure is sought, Americans are all multi-cultural. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHBT; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 200 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.

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 complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon—and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism.

The story of successive generations of Americans experimenting with their new neighbors’ ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674001909
SKU
V9780674001909
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-13

About Donna R. Gabaccia
Donna R. Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

Reviews for We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans
Today’s multiethnic American diet offers intriguing insight into the character of the nation, the subject of Donna Gabaccia’s We Are What We Eat… Rigorously annotated and dense with detail, Gabaccia’s writing nevertheless evokes knee-buckled puritans and buckskin-clad settlers, sunbonnets and babushkas, and the clamor of street markets at the turn of the century. Drawing from early ... Read more

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