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Sameness in diversity : food and globalization in modern America / Laresh Jayasanker ; foreword by Carol Helstosky.

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"Americans of the 1960s, accustomed to frozen dinners and soupy casseroles, would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. There, they would find once-exotic ingredients-like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk-that have become standard in contem...

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Main Author: Jayasanker, Laresh, 1972-2018 (Author)
Other Authors: Helstosky, Carol (author of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 72.
Subjects:
Food habits > United States > History > 21st century.
Food industry and trade > United States.
Food habits > Social aspects > United States.
Food > Social aspects > United States.
Food supply > Globalization.
Food habits.
Food habits > Social aspects.
Food industry and trade.
Food > Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The globalization of the fruit and vegetable trade
  • The consolidation and globalization of grocery stores
  • Marketing ethnic foods at the supermarket
  • The changing American restaurant
  • Cookbooks navigate the globe
  • Indian restaurants in American : a case study in translating diversity
  • Chinese food from Chinatown to the suburbs
  • Tortilla politics
  • Conclusion : what is an authentic taco?

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