We are what we eat : ethnic food and the making of Americans / Donna R. Gabaccia ; [illustrations by Susan Keller].

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Gabaccia, Donna R, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674037441
0674037448
0674001907
9780674001909

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: We are what we eat.DDC classification:

394.1/2/0973 21

LOC classification:

GT2853.U5 G33 1998

NLM classification:

394.12 G112w

Other classification:

71.55
HD 375
LC 17610

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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?

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Summary: Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in L.A. 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, entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon - and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism.Summary: We Are What We Eat follows the fortunes of dozens of enterprising immigrant cooks and grocers, street hawkers and restaurateurs who have cultivated and changed the tastes of native-born Americans from the seventeenth century to the present. The book draws a surprisingly peaceful picture of American ethnic relations, in which "Americanized" foods like Spaghetti-Os happily coexist with painstakingly pure ethnic dishes and creative hybrids

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index.

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Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in L.A. 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, entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon - and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism.

We Are What We Eat follows the fortunes of dozens of enterprising immigrant cooks and grocers, street hawkers and restaurateurs who have cultivated and changed the tastes of native-born Americans from the seventeenth century to the present. The book draws a surprisingly peaceful picture of American ethnic relations, in which "Americanized" foods like Spaghetti-Os happily coexist with painstakingly pure ethnic dishes and creative hybrids

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