We Are What We Eat Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans

Name: We Are What We Eat Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans
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ISBN: 9780674001909

ISBN-10: 0674001907

ISBN-13: 9780674001909

Edition: 1998

Authors: Donna R. Gabaccia

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We Are What We Eat follows the fortunes of dozens of enterprising immigrant cooks and grocers, street hawkers and restauranteurs who have cultivated and changed the tastes of native-born Americans from the 17th century to the present.

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.13" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history and former director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Her many books include "We Are What We Eat" and "Immigration and American Diversity".



Introduction: What Do We Eat?


Colonial Creoles Immigration, Isolation, and Industry Ethnic


Entrepreneurs Crossing the Boundaries of Taste Food


Fights and American Values


The Big Business of Eating Of Cookbooks and Culinary Roots


Nouvelle Creole


Conclusion: Who are We?


Sources


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index