[PDF.59nb] We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans

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

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 | #767565 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2000-04-17 |  2000-02-25 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.72 x6.70l,.80 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||14 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| Not very substantial|By Customer|This book is a moderately interesting discussion of the role ehtnic cuisine has played in the United States through history. I had expected a more focused discussion of specific foods and ethnicities and wider exploration of the interplay between food and culture. This book just doesn't have the depth I had hoped for. The books main focus|.com |Donna R. Gabaccia, a professor of American history, explores how ethnicity has influenced the eating habits of Americans and determines that America is "not a multi-ethnic nation, but a nation of multi-ethnics." Can a country that eats bagel dogs and Thai

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 entertain...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans   |  Donna R. Gabaccia. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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