Flavors of Empire
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Flavors of Empire

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Flavors of Empire

About this book

With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles's and America's culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community. Full of vivid oral histories and new archival material, this book explores the factors that made foodways central to the Thai American experience. Starting with American Cold War intervention in Thailand, Mark Padoongpatt traces how informal empire allowed U.S. citizens to discover Thai cuisine abroad and introduce it inside the United States. When Thais arrived in Los Angeles, they reinvented and repackaged Thai food in various ways to meet the rising popularity of the cuisine in urban and suburban spaces. Padoongpatt opens up the history and politics of Thai food for the first time, all while demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected places.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780520293731
eBook ISBN
9780520966925
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Flavors of Empire
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: From Thailand to Thai Town
  10. 1 ā€¢ ā€œOne Night in Bangkokā€: Food and the Everyday Life of Empire
  11. 2 ā€¢ ā€œChasing the Yumā€: Food Procurement and Early Thai Los Angeles
  12. 3 ā€¢ Too Hot to Handle? Restaurants and Thai American Identity
  13. 4 ā€¢ ā€œMore Than a Place of Worshipā€: Food Festivals and Thai American Suburban Culture
  14. 5 ā€¢ Thailandā€™s ā€œ77th Provinceā€: Culinary Tourism in Thai Town
  15. Conclusion: Beyond Cooking and Eating
  16. Notes
  17. Index