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The taco truck : how Mexican street food is transforming the American city /

"Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence--sometimes desired, sometimes resented--that turns a public street corner into...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lemon, Robert, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Jeffrey M. Pilcher
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Engaging Taco Truck Space
  • Remaking Oakland's Streets
  • Formalizing San Francisco's Informal Street Food Vendors
  • Making Sacramento into an Edible City
  • Landscape, Labor, and the Lonchera
  • Community Conflict and Cuisine in Columbus
  • Cooking up Multiculturalism
  • Food, Fear, and Dreams
  • Conclusion: An Evolving American Space.