Urban food culture : Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore in the twentieth century / Cecilia Leong-Salobir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leong-Salobir, Cecilia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--20th century.

Food habits.

Food habits--China--Shanghai--History--20th century.

Food habits--Singapore--History--20th century.

Food--Social aspects--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--20th century.

Food.

Food--Social aspects--China--Shanghai--History--20th century.

Food--Social aspects--Singapore--History--20th century.

Food--Social aspects.

History.

China--Shanghai.

New South Wales--Sydney.

Singapore.

Australia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 256 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Urban food culture : Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore in the 20th century

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

This book explores the food history of twentieth-century Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore within an Asian Pacific network of flux and flows. It engages with a range of historical perspectives on each city's food and culinary histories, including colonial culinary legacies, restaurants, cafes, street food, market gardens, supermarkets and cookbooks, examining the exchange of goods and services and how the migration of people to the urban centres informed the social histories of the cities' foodways in the contexts of culinary nationalism, ethnic identities and globalization. Considering the recent food history of the three cities and its complex narrative of empire, trade networks and migration patterns, this book discusses key aspects of each city's cuisine in the twentieth century, examining the interwoven threads of colonialism and globalization.

Contents:

Introduction

Sydney flavours : from convict colony to cosmopolitan city

Shanghai : from treaty port to global city

Singapore : tasting the city

Colonial legacies : curries and other hybridities

Restaurants, cafes and street food

Markets and supermarkets

Cookbooks : recipes and culinary tales.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1137522232

9781137522238

OCLC:

1089797169