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The Taste of American Place

A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods

von: Barbara G. Shortridge, James R. Shortridge, Cary W. de Wit, Stephen Frenkel, Marjorie A. Hoover, James F. Hoy, Lynne M. Ireland, Thomas D. Isern, Anne R. Kaplan, James L. Kelly, Charles F. Kovacik, Harry Gene Levine, George H. Lewis, Timothy C. Lloyd, William G. Lockwood, Yvonne R. Lockwood, Sabina Magliocco, Joseph T. Manzo, John A. Milbauer, Willard B. Moore, Michael O. Roark, Gaye Tuchman, Wilbur Zelinsky
59,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.09.1999
ISBN/EAN:	9781461645788
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	398

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Titelbeschreibung

Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors have selected a group of engaging essays to help students explore the idea of food as a window into American culture. The editors' general introductory essay offers an overview of current scholarship, and part introductions contextualize the readings within each section. This lively reader will be a valuable supplement for courses on American culture across the social sciences.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: Food and American Culture
 Part 2 Regional Foods
 Chapter 3 Pasties in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Foodways, Interethnic Relations, and Regionalism
 Chapter 4 Rocky Mountain Oysters
 Chapter 5 Loco Moco: A Folk Dish in the Making
 Chapter 6 The Cincinnati Chili Culinary Complex
 Chapter 7 A Pound of Kenya, Please, or a Single Short Skinny Mocha
 Chapter 8 The Maine Lobster as Regional Icon: Competing Images over Time and Social Class
 Chapter 9 Patterns of American Rice Consumption 1955 and 1980
 Chapter 10 Food-Place Associations on American Product Labels
 Chapter 11 The Compiled Cookbook as Foodways Autobiography
 Part 12 Ethnic Foods
 Chapter 13 Introduction: On Ethnic Foodways
 Chapter 14 Bierocks and Back for More Bierocks
 Chapter 15 Cajuns and Crawfish
 Chapter 16 Playing with Food: The Negotiation of Identity in the Ethnic Display Event by Italian Americans in Clinton, Indiana
 Chapter 17 New York Jews and Chinese Food: The Social Construction of an Ethnic Pattern
 Part 18 Eating Out
 Chapter 19 Eating Out in South Carolina's Cities: The Last Fifty Years
 Chapter 20 The Geography of Food in Eastern Oklahoma: A Small Restaurant Study
 Chapter 21 From Pushcart to Modular Restaurant: The Diner on the Landscape
 Chapter 22 Fast Foods: American Food Regions
 Chapter 23 You Are Where You Eat

Autorenportrait

Barbara G. Shortridge is assistant professor of geography at the University of Kansas. James R. Shortridge is professor of geography at the University of Kansas.