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We Are What We Eat - Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (Paperback, New edition)
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We Are What We Eat - Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (Paperback, New edition)
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Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up
pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How
ethnicity has influenced American eating habits-and thus, the
make-up and direction of the American cultural mainstream-is the
story told in We Are What We Eat. It 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 our culinary tradition of multiculturalism.
The story of successive generations of Americans experimenting with
their new neighbors' foods highlights the marketplace as an
important arena for defining and expressing ethnic identities and
relationships. We Are What We Eat follows the fortunes of dozens of
enterprising immigrant cooks and grocers, street hawkers and
restaurateurs who have cultivated and changed the tastes of
native-born Americans from the seventeenth century to the present.
It also tells of the mass corporate production of foods like
spaghetti, bagels, corn chips, and salsa, obliterating their ethnic
identities. The book draws a surprisingly peaceful picture of
American ethnic relations, in which "Americanized" foods like
Spaghetti-Os happily coexist with painstakingly pure ethnic dishes
and creative hybrids. Donna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we
are what we eat, who are we? Americans' multi-ethnic eating is a
constant reminder of how widespread, and mutually enjoyable, ethnic
interaction has sometimes been in the United States. Amid our
wrangling over immigration and tribal differences, it reveals that
on a basic level, in the way we sustain life and seek pleasure, we
are all multicultural.
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