We Are What We Eat : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans.
Gabaccia, Donna R.
We Are What We Eat : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)
Intro -- 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? -- Sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
We Are What We Eat 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 America's culinary tradition of multiculturalism. Donna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we are what we eat, who are we?.
9780674037441
Food habits-United States.
Ethnic food industry-United States.
Ethnic attitudes-United States.
United States-Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
GT2853
394.1/2/0973
We Are What We Eat : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)
Intro -- 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? -- Sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
We Are What We Eat 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 America's culinary tradition of multiculturalism. Donna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we are what we eat, who are we?.
9780674037441
Food habits-United States.
Ethnic food industry-United States.
Ethnic attitudes-United States.
United States-Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
GT2853
394.1/2/0973