Flavors of Empire : Food and the Making of Thai America Paperback / softback
by Mark Padoongpatt
Part of the American Crossroads series
Paperback / softback
Description
With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles's culinary scene in the 1980s.
Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community.
Full of vivid oral histories and new material from the archives, this book explores the factors that made foodways central to the Thai American experience.
Starting with American Cold War intervention in Thailand, Mark Padoongpatt traces how informal empire allowed U.S. citizens to discover Thai cuisine abroad and introduce it inside the United States.
When Thais arrived in Los Angeles, they reinvented and repackaged Thai food in various ways to meet the rising popularity of the cuisine in urban and suburban spaces.
Padoongpatt opens up the history, politics, and tastes of Thai food for the first time, all while demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected places.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 5 maps and 6 halftones, scatte
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:19/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520293748
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Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 5 maps and 6 halftones, scatte
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:19/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520293748
