We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans

by Donna R. Gabaccia

Book Overview

Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. 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, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon--and a thoroughly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674001907
• ISBN13: 9780674001909
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"