Exotic Appetites

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Heldke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she also teaches in the Women's Studies department. Klappentext First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung An exploration of "food adventuring": the passion, fashion and pursuit of the experimentation with ethnic foods. This volume examines the meanings and socio-political implications involved in the quest for new and interesting restaurants, exotic dishes and ethnic cookbooks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Leaving Home: One Girl's Story Part One: Let's Eat Chinese 1. The Quest for Novelty 2. The Pursuit of Authenticity 3. The Other as Resource Part Two: How I Ate Civet Cat and Lived to Tell the Tale 4. And Reader, We Ate It 5. What Do You Mean We Can't Film the Market Sequence Here? Part Three: Let's Cook Thai 6. Can the Dough Boy Be an Insider? 7. How to Stuff a Wild Zucchini 8. Aided by My Faithful Old Family Cook Part Four: Toward Anticolonialist Eating 9. Okay, Let's Stay Home 10. The Skeptical Palate 11. Eating in Context Epilogue: Returning to the Garden Notes Bibliography

Autorentext

Lisa Heldke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she also teaches in the Women's Studies department.

Klappentext

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zusammenfassung
An exploration of "food adventuring": the passion, fashion and pursuit of the experimentation with ethnic foods. This volume examines the meanings and socio-political implications involved in the quest for new and interesting restaurants, exotic dishes and ethnic cookbooks.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction: Leaving Home: One Girl's Story Part One: Let's Eat Chinese 1. The Quest for Novelty 2. The Pursuit of Authenticity 3. The Other as Resource Part Two: How I Ate Civet Cat and Lived to Tell the Tale 4. And Reader, We Ate It 5. What Do You Mean We Can't Film the Market Sequence Here? Part Three: Let's Cook Thai 6. Can the Dough Boy Be an Insider? 7. How to Stuff a Wild Zucchini 8. Aided by My Faithful Old Family Cook Part Four: Toward Anticolonialist Eating 9. Okay, Let's Stay Home 10. The Skeptical Palate 11. Eating in Context Epilogue: Returning to the Garden Notes Bibliography