ISBN:
0415392136
,
0203947126
,
9780415392136
,
9780203947128
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 215 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Anthropology of Asia series ; 17
Parallel Title:
Print version Food and Foodways in Asia : Resource, Tradition and Cooking
DDC:
394.1/2095
Keywords:
Cooking, Asian Social aspects
;
Food habits
;
Food Social aspects
;
Asia Social life and customs
Abstract:
With chapters written by prominent anthropologists, this book provides the reader with rich ethnographic analysis of the changing process in the production of food and foodways throughout Asia
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction: Food and foodways in Asia; Part I: Ecology, resources and food production; 1 Fermented marine food products in Vietnam: Ecological basis and production; 2 Namako and iriko: Historical overview on holothuria (sea cucumber) exploitation, utilization, and trade in Japan; 3 Fish in the marsh: A case study of freshwater fish farming in Hong Kong; Part II: Tradition and food production; 4 Poonchoi: The production and popularity of a rural festive cuisine in urban and modern Hong Kong
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Convenient-involvement foods and production of the family meal in South China6 Edible mercy: Charity food production and fundraising activities in Hong Kong; 7 Estimating rice, agriculture, global trade and national food culture in South Korea; Part III: Restaurants and food production; 8 A taste of the past: Historically themed restaurants and social memory in Singapore; 9 Indigenous food and foodways: Mapping the production of Ainu food in Tokyo; 10 Authenticity and professionalism in restaurant kitchens; Part IV: Asian cooking and world cuisine; 11 In search of a Macanese cookbook
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Nyonya cuisine: Chinese, non-Chinese and the making of a famous cuisine in Southeast Asia13 From Malacca to Adelaide…: Fragments towards a biography of cooking, yearning and laksa; 14 Asia's contributions to world cuisine: A beginning inquiry; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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