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The Taco Truck - How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City (Paperback)
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The Taco Truck - How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City (Paperback)
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Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal,
taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The
taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with
a presence-sometimes desired, sometimes resented-that turns a
public street corner into a bustling business. Drawing on
interviews with taco truck workers and his own skills as a
geographer, Robert Lemon illuminates new truths about foodways,
community, and the unexpected places where ethnicity, class, and
culture meet. Lemon focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area,
Sacramento, and Columbus, Ohio, to show how the arrival of taco
trucks challenge preconceived ideas of urban planning even as
cities use them to reinvent whole neighborhoods. As Lemon charts
the relationships between food practices and city spaces, he
uncovers the many ways residents and politicians alike contest,
celebrate, and influence not only where your favorite truck parks,
but what's on the menu.
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