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Author Jayasanker, Laresh, 1972-2018, author.

Title Sameness in diversity food and globalization in modern America / Laresh Jayasanker ; foreword by Carol Helstosky.

Publication Info. Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series California studies in food and culture ; 72
California studies in food and culture ; 72.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The globalization of the fruit and vegetable trade -- The consolidation and globalization of grocery stores -- Marketing ethnic foods at the supermarket -- The changing American restaurant -- Cookbooks navigate the globe -- Indian restaurants in American : a case study in translating diversity -- Chinese food from Chinatown to the suburbs -- Tortilla politics -- Conclusion : what is an authentic taco?
Summary "Americans of the 1960s, accustomed to frozen dinners and soupy casseroles, would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. There, they would find once-exotic ingredients-like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk-that have become standard in contemporary Americans' diets. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded, even as food companies have consolidated. These changes reflect other transformations in transportation, suburbanization, immigration, and global production. Drawing on menus, cookbooks, trade publications, interviews, and company records, Jayasanker explores Americans' changing eating habits to illuminate the impacts of globalization and immigration on American culture"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Food habits -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Food habits.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Food industry and trade -- United States.
Food habits -- Social aspects -- United States.
Food industry and trade.
Food -- Social aspects -- United States.
Food -- Social aspects.
Food supply -- Globalization.
Food supply.
Globalization.
Food habits -- Social aspects.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Helstosky, Carol, writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Jayasanker, Laresh, 1972-2018. Sameness in diversity. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520343955 (DLC) 2019041008
ISBN 0520975286 electronic book
9780520975286 electronic book
9780520343955 hardcover
9780520343962 paperback