With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and
spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles's culinary scene in
the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the
way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American
identity and community. Full of vivid oral histories and new
material from the archives, this book explores the factors that
made foodways central to the Thai American experience. Starting
with American Cold War intervention in Thailand, Mark Padoongpatt
traces how informal empire allowed U.S. citizens to discover Thai
cuisine abroad and introduce it inside the United States. When
Thais arrived in Los Angeles, they reinvented and repackaged Thai
food in various ways to meet the rising popularity of the cuisine
in urban and suburban spaces. Padoongpatt opens up the history,
politics, and tastes of Thai food for the first time, all while
demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected
places.
General
Imprint: |
University of California Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
American Crossroads, 45 |
Release date: |
September 2017 |
First published: |
2017 |
Authors: |
Mark Padoongpatt
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-29374-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
LSN: |
0-520-29374-6 |
Barcode: |
9780520293748 |
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