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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1998Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674037441
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: We Are What We EatDDC classification:
  • 394.1/2/0973
LOC classification:
  • GT2853
Online resources:
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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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?.

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