Asian food : the global and the local / edited by Katarzyna Cwiertka with Boudewijn Walraven.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cwiertka, Katarzyna.

Walraven, Boudewijn.

Series:

ConsumAsian Series

ConsumAsiaN book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gastronomy.

Diet--Asia.

Diet.

Food habits--Asia.

Food habits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume pinpoints the consequences of the tension between homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation, which is so characteristic for today's global interaction.

Contents:

Cover; ASIAN FOOD; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Eating Hong Kong's Way Out; 2 Acceptance of milk products in Southeast Asia: the case of Indonesiaas a traditional non-dairying region; 3 Food in middle-class Madras households from the 1970s to the 1990s; 4 Ladies who lunch: young women and the domestic fallacy in Japan; 5 Wild-gathered foods as countercurrents to dietary globalisation in South Korea; 6 Bardot soup and Confucians' meat: food and Korean identity in global context

7 Family hospitality and ethnic tradition among South Asian womenin the west of Scotland8 Eating the homeland: Japanese expatriates in The Netherlands; 9 Chinese and Indonesian restaurants and the taste for exotic food in The Netherlands: a global-local trend; Warm mushroom sushi? An afterword; References; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-12034-3

1-283-96182-2

0-203-03716-2

1-136-12026-2

9780203037164

OCLC:

826854696