We are what we eat

Description:

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.

subjects: Ethnic attitudes,  Ethnic food industry,  Food habits,  Social life and customs,  United States,  United states, social life and customs,  American Cooking,  Food industry and trade,  Feeding Behavior,  History,  Habitudes alimentaires,  Cuisine ethnique,  Attitudes ethniques,  Mœurs et coutumes,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Customs & Traditions,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food,  Manners and customs,  Ernährungsgewohnheit,  Ethnische Identität,  Ethnizität,  Lebensmittelindustrie,  Voedingsgewoonten,  Etnische groepen,  Moeurs et coutumes,  Alimentation

Places: United States