ISBN:
0520975286
,
9780520975286
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 269 pages)
Series Statement:
California studies in food and culture 72
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jayasanker, Laresh, 1972-2018 Sameness in diversity
DDC:
394.1/20973
Keywords:
Food industry and trade
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Food habits Social aspects
;
Food Social aspects
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Food supply Globalization
;
Food habits History 21st century
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HISTORY ; United States ; 20th Century
;
Food habits
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Food habits ; Social aspects
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Food industry and trade
;
Food ; Social aspects
;
History
;
United States
Abstract:
"Americans of the 1960s, accustomed to frozen dinners and soupy casseroles, would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. There, they would find once-exotic ingredients-like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk-that have become standard in contemporary Americans' diets. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded, even as food companies have consolidated. These changes reflect other transformations in transportation, suburbanization, immigration, and global production. Drawing on menus, cookbooks, trade publications, interviews, and company records, Jayasanker explores Americans' changing eating habits to illuminate the impacts of globalization and immigration on American culture"--
Abstract:
The globalization of the fruit and vegetable trade -- The consolidation and globalization of grocery stores -- Marketing ethnic foods at the supermarket -- The changing American restaurant -- Cookbooks navigate the globe -- Indian restaurants in American : a case study in translating diversity -- Chinese food from Chinatown to the suburbs -- Tortilla politics -- Conclusion : what is an authentic taco?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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