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The Globalization of Asian Cuisines : Transnational Networks and Culinary Contact Zones

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015 [©2015]

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Englisch

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978-1-137-51408-0

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LOC-SH: Food habits--Asia

This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world. Individual chapters provide historical and ethnographic accounts of the people, places, and activities involved in Asia's culinary globalization.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Traveling Cuisines in and out of Asia: Toward a Framework for Studying Culinary Globalization -- Part I Transnational Pathways of Asian Cuisines -- 2 Culinary Spaces and National Cuisines: The Pleasures of an Indian Ocean Cuisine? -- 3 The Travels of Kitty's Love Cake: A Tale of Spices, "Asian" Flavors, and Cuisine Sans Frontières? -- 4 Umami Abroad: Taste, Authenticity, and the Global Urban Network -- 5 Chinese Immigrants and Japanese Cuisine in the United States: A Case of Culinary Glocalization -- Part II Cuisines into Asia -- 6 Shanghai's Western Restaurants as Culinary Contact Zones in a Transnational Culinary Field -- 7 Japanese Cooks in Italy: The Path-Dependent Development of a Culinary Field -- Part III Global-Local Culinary Politics -- 8 The Invention of Local Food -- 9 The Remaking of a National Cuisine: The Food Education Campaign in Japan -- 10 Knife-Shaved Noodles Go Global: Provincial Culinary Politics and the Improbable Rise of a Minor Chinese Cuisine -- 11 From Cajun Crayfish to Spicy Little Lobster: A Tale of Local Culinary Politics in a Third-Tier City in China -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.