Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries

by Irene Tinker

Book Overview

"Street foods," the term coined by Irene Tinker for the Equity Policy Center's action-research project, defines the study of all meals, snacks, and sweets currently sold on the streets of the world for immediate consumption.

The culmination of fifteen years of research in provincial cities in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, and Senegal, Street Foods is the first empirical study of those who make, sell, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195117115
• ISBN13: 9780195117110
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"