We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans

by Donna R. Gabaccia

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674001907

ISBN13:9780674001909

Release Date:April 2000

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Agricultural Sciences Anthropology Cooking Cooking Cooking Education & Reference Cultural Customs & Traditions Essays Food Science History Holiday Cooking Politics & Social Sciences Regional & International Social Sciences

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