Eating Asian America: a food studies reader

✍ Scribed by Robert Ji-Song Ku;Martin F. Manalansan IV;Anita Mannur

• Publisher: NYU Press;Credo Reference
• Year: 2014;2013
• Tongue: English
• Edition: Enhanced Credo edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader collects burgeoning new scholarship in Asian American Studies that centers the study of foodways and culinary practices in our understanding of the racialized underpinnings of Asian Americanness.;An Alimentary Introduction Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur -- PART I: LABORS OF TASTE. 1. Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles Erin M. Curtis -- 2. Tasting America: The Politics and Pleasures of School Lunch in Hawai'i Christine R. Yano (with Wanda Adams) -- 3. A Life Cooking for Others: The Work and Migration Experiences of a Chinese Restaurant Worker in New York City, 1920 / 1946 Heather R. Lee -- 4. Learning from Los Kogi Angeles: A Taco Truck and Its City Oliver Wang -- 5. The Significance of Hawai'i Regional Cuisine in Postcolonial Hawai'i Samuel Hideo Yamashita.

✦ Table of Contents

PART IV: READABLE FEASTS.16. Acting Asian American, Eating Asian American: The Politics of Race and Food in Don Lee's Wrack and Ruin Jennifer Ho --
17. Devouring Hawai'i: Food, Consumption, and Contemporary Art Margo Machida --
18. "Love Is Not a Bowl of Quinces": Food, Desire, and the Queer Asian Body in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt Denise Cruz --
19. The Globe at the Table: How Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian Reconfigures the World Delores B. Phillips --
20. Perfection on a Plate: Readings in the South Asian Transnational Queer Kitchen Anita Mannur. PART III: FUSION, DIFFUSION, CONFUSION? 11. Twenty-First-Century Food Trucks: Mobility, Social Media, and Urban Hipness Lok Siu --
12. Samsa on Sheepshead Bay: Tracing Uzbek Foodprints in Southern Brooklyn Zohra Saed --
13. Apple Pie and Makizushi: Japanese American Women Sustaining Family and Community Valerie J. Matsumoto --
14. Giving Credit Where It Is Due: Asian American Farmers and Retailers as Food System Pioneers Nina F. Ichikawa --
15. Beyond Authenticity: Rerouting the Filipino Culinary Diaspora Martin F. Manalansan IV. PART II: EMPIRES OF FOOD. 6. Incarceration, Cafeteria Style: The Politics of the Mess Hall in the Japanese American Incarceration Heidi Kathleen Kim --
7. As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating, and Becoming Filipina/o American before World War II Dawn Bohulano Mabalon --
8. Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with Adobo: The American Relationship with Filipino Food, 1898 / 1946 René Alexander Orquiza Jr. --
9. "Oriental Cookery": Devouring Asian and Pacific Cuisine during the Cold War Mark Padoongpatt --
10. Gannenshoyu or First-Year Soy Sauce? Kikkoman Soy Sauce and the Corporate Forgetting of the Early Japanese American Consumer Robert Ji-Song Ku. An Alimentary Introduction Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur --
PART I: LABORS OF TASTE. 1. Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles Erin M. Curtis --
2. Tasting America: The Politics and Pleasures of School Lunch in Hawai'i Christine R. Yano (with Wanda Adams) --
3. A Life Cooking for Others: The Work and Migration Experiences of a Chinese Restaurant Worker in New York City, 1920 / 1946 Heather R. Lee --
4. Learning from Los Kogi Angeles: A Taco Truck and Its City Oliver Wang --
5. The Significance of Hawai'i Regional Cuisine in Postcolonial Hawai'i Samuel Hideo Yamashita.

✦ Subjects

Asian Americans--Ethnic identity;Asian Americans--Social life and customs;Cooking, Asian--Social aspects;Food habits--Social aspects;Food habits--Social aspects--United States;Food--Social aspects;Food--Social aspects--United States;;Asian Americans -- Social life and customs;Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity;Cooking, Asian -- Social aspects;Food -- Social aspects -- United States;Food habits -- Social aspects -- United States;Food habits -- Social aspects;Food -- Social aspects;United States