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

By:

Gabaccia, Donna R

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674037441

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: We Are What We EatDDC classification:

394.1/2/0973

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GT2853

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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?.

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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?.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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