TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gabaccia,Donna R.
TI  - We are what we eat: ethnic food and the making of Americans 
SN  - 9780674037441
AV  - GT2853.U5 G33 1998
U1  - 394.1/2/0973 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Food habits
KW  - United States
KW  - Ethnic food industry
KW  - Ethnic attitudes
KW  - Cooking, American
KW  - Food industry and trade
KW  - Feeding Behavior
KW  - history
KW  - Habitudes alimentaires
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Cuisine ethnique
KW  - Attitudes ethniques
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Customs & Traditions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Voedingsgewoonten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Etnische groepen
KW  - Ernährungsgewohnheit
KW  - gnd
KW  - Ethnische Identität
KW  - Ethnizität
KW  - Lebensmittelindustrie
KW  - Moeurs et coutumes
KW  - Alimentation
KW  - ram
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index; Introduction: What Do We Eat?; 1; Colonial Creoles; 2; Immigration, Isolation, and Industry; 3; Ethnic Entrepreneurs; 4; Crossing the Boundaries of Taste; 5; Food Fights and American Values; 6; The Big Business of Eating; 7; Of Cookbooks and Culinary Roots; 8; Nouvelle Creole; Conclusion: Who Are We?; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in L.A. 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, entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon - and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism; 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. 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
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