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Chow Chop Suey : Food and the Chinese American Journey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History SeriesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231541299
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chow Chop SueyDDC classification:
  • 641.5951
LOC classification:
  • TX724.5.C5 M376 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Terminology -- Introduction -- Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen -- Part I -- 1. Origins: The Toisan-California Pipeline -- 2. The Culinary "Language" Barrier -- 3. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain -- 4. The Road to Chinatown -- Part II -- 5. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine -- 6. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators" -- 7. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine -- 8. An Advancement of Learning -- 9. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration -- Postscript: What Might Have Been -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A food history that illuminates a community's struggle for survival.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Terminology -- Introduction -- Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen -- Part I -- 1. Origins: The Toisan-California Pipeline -- 2. The Culinary "Language" Barrier -- 3. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain -- 4. The Road to Chinatown -- Part II -- 5. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine -- 6. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators" -- 7. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine -- 8. An Advancement of Learning -- 9. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration -- Postscript: What Might Have Been -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

A food history that illuminates a community's struggle for survival.

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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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