The World in a Skillet : a Food Lover's Tour of the New American South.

By:

Knipple, Paul

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780807869963
0807869961

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: World in a Skillet : A Food Lover's Tour of the New American South.DDC classification:

641.5975

LOC classification:

TX715.2.S68

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface: We Are All from Somewhere Else; Introduction: Keepers of the Flame; PART I. SEEKING THE AMERICAN DREAM; 1 Mexico: Up by the Bootstraps; 2 Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: Refugees, Politics, and the Plate; 3 Kurds: A People without a Country; PART II. LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM; 4 Central and South America: Family; 5 Vietnam: Community; 6 Bosnia: Extended Community; 7 The Indian Subcontinent: Feeding the Technology Boom; 8 Japan and South Korea: Blue Collars and Bluefin; PART III. BRINGING TRADITION TO THE TABLE; 9 China: The Secret Menu.

10 Kosher and Halal: Keeping the Faith in the Land of Pork11 Europe: Haute Cuisine and Double Standards?; 12 Africa: Returning from Gumbo to N'gombo; Afterword; Suggested Reading; Acknowledgments; Index of Recipes; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Summary: Paul and Angela Knipple's culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions "down home." Drawing on their firsthand interviews and reportage from Richmond to Mobile and enriched by a cornucopia of photographs and original recipes, the Knipples present engaging, poignant profiles of a host of first-generation immigrants from all over the world who are cooking their way through life as professional chefs, food entrepreneurs and restaurateurs, and home cooks. Beginning the tour with an appreciation of the South's foundational food traditions--in.

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Paul and Angela Knipple's culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions "down home." Drawing on their firsthand interviews and reportage from Richmond to Mobile and enriched by a cornucopia of photographs and original recipes, the Knipples present engaging, poignant profiles of a host of first-generation immigrants from all over the world who are cooking their way through life as professional chefs, food entrepreneurs and restaurateurs, and home cooks. Beginning the tour with an appreciation of the South's foundational food traditions--in.