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Planet taco : a global history of Mexican food / Jeffrey M. Pilcher.
LIBRA TX716.M4 P543 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pilcher, Jeffrey M., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, Mexican--History.
- Cooking, Mexican.
- Cooking, Mexican--Social aspects--History.
- Food habits--Mexico--History.
- Food habits.
- Ethnicity--Mexico.
- Ethnicity.
- Tacos--History.
- Tacos.
- Mexican Americans--Food--History.
- Mexican Americans.
- Sovereignty--Social aspects--Mexico--History.
- Sovereignty.
- Globalization--Social aspects--History.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- History.
- Sovereignty--Social aspects.
- Mexican Americans--Food.
- Social aspects.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Tacos
- Part I. Proto-Tacos
- Maize and the Making of Mexico
- Burritos in the Borderlands
- Part II. National Tacos
- From the Pastry War to Parisian Mole
- The Rise and Fall of the Chili Queens
- Inventing the Mexican American Taco
- Part III. Global Tacos
- The First Wave of Global Mexican
- The Blue Corn Bonanza
- Conclusion: The Battle of the Taco Trucks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-282) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0199740062
- OCLC:
- 781680667
- Publisher Number:
- 99952071248
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