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Author Orquiza, René Alexander, Jr., author.

Title Taste of control : food and the Filipino colonial mentality under American rule / René Alexander D. Orquiza, Jr.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 197 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents First Impressions -- Menus -- Travel Guides -- Cookbooks -- Education -- Advertisements.
Summary "Filipino cuisine is a delicious fusion of foreign influences, adopted and transformed into its own unique flavor. But to the Americans who came to colonize the islands in the 1890s, it was considered inferior and lacking in nutrition. Changing the food of the Philippines was part of a war on culture led by Americans as they attempted to shape the islands into a reflection of their home country. Taste of Control tells what happened when American colonizers began to influence what Filipinos ate, how they cooked, and how they perceived their national cuisine. Food historian R. Alexander D. Orquiza, Jr. turns to a variety of rare archival sources to track these changing attitudes, including the letters written by American soldiers, the cosmopolitan menus prepared by Manila restaurants, and the textbooks used in local home economics classes. He also uncovers pockets of resistance to the colonial project, as Filipino cookbooks provided a defense of the nation's traditional cuisine and culture. Through the topic of food, Taste of Control explores how, despite lasting less than fifty years, the American colonial occupation of the Philippines left psychological scars that have not yet completely healed, leading many Filipinos to believe that their traditional cooking practices, crops, and tastes were inferior. We are what we eat, and this book reveals how food culture served as a battleground over Filipino identity"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Food habits -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century.
Food habits.
Philippines.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Food -- Social aspects -- Philippines.
Food -- Social aspects.
Food -- Philippines -- Psychological aspects.
Food.
Psychological aspects.
Filipinos -- Ethnic identity.
Filipinos.
Ethnicity.
Philippines -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
Colonization.
Social aspects.
Philippines -- Civilization -- American influences.
Civilization.
Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946.
Chronological Term 1898-1946
Subject United States -- Relations -- Philippines.
United States.
Relations.
Philippines -- Relations -- United States.
Chronological Term 1898-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Orquiza, René Alexander, Jr. Taste of control. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2020 9781978806412 (DLC) 2019048885 (OCoLC)1127065547
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