We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans
- ISBN-10
- 0674037448
- ISBN-13
- 9780674037441
- Series
- We Are What We Eat
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-30
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Donna R. Gabaccia
Description
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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- 2000-04-14
- 278 pages
- Paperback
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- 2000-04-14
- 288 pages
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