The world in a skillet : a food lover's tour of the new American South / Paul & Angela Knipple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knipple, Paul.

Contributor:

Knipple, Angela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, American--Southern style.

Cooking, American.

International cooking.

Southern States--Emigration and immigration.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Paul and Angela Knipple's culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions ""down home."" Drawing on their firsthand interviews and reportage from Richmond to Mobile and enriched by a cornucopia of photographs and original recipes, the Knipples present engaging, poignant profiles of a host of first-generation immigrants from all over the world who are cooking their way through life as professional chefs, food entrepreneurs and restaurateurs, and home cooks. Beginning the tour with an appreciation of the South's foundational food traditio

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface: We Are All from Somewhere Else; Introduction: Keepers of the Flame; PART I. SEEKING THE AMERICAN DREAM; 1 Mexico: Up by the Bootstraps; 2 Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: Refugees, Politics, and the Plate; 3 Kurds: A People without a Country; PART II. LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM; 4 Central and South America: Family; 5 Vietnam: Community; 6 Bosnia: Extended Community; 7 The Indian Subcontinent: Feeding the Technology Boom; 8 Japan and South Korea: Blue Collars and Bluefin; PART III. BRINGING TRADITION TO THE TABLE; 9 China: The Secret Menu

10 Kosher and Halal: Keeping the Faith in the Land of Pork11 Europe: Haute Cuisine and Double Standards?; 12 Africa: Returning from Gumbo to N'gombo; Afterword; Suggested Reading; Acknowledgments; Index of Recipes; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

979-88-908855-9-3

0-8078-6996-1

OCLC:

782879128