Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • An Alimentary Introduction
  • 1. Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles
  • 2. Tasting America
  • 3. A Life Cooking for Others
  • 4. Learning from Los Kogi Angeles: A Taco Truck and Its City
  • 5. The Significance of Hawai'i Regional Cuisine in Postcolonial Hawai'i
  • 6. Incarceration, Cafeteria Style
  • 7. As American as Jackrabbit Adobo
  • 8. Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with Adobo
  • 9. "Oriental Cookery"
  • 10. Gannenshoyu or First-Year Soy Sauce?
  • 11. Twenty-First-Century Food Trucks
  • 12. Samsa on Sheepshead Bay
  • 13. Apple Pie and Makizushi
  • 14. Giving Credit Where It Is Due
  • 15. Beyond Authenticity
  • 16. Acting Asian American, Eating Asian American
  • 17. Devouring Hawai'i
  • 18. "Love Is Not a Bowl of Quinces"
  • 19. The Globe at the Table
  • 20. Perfection on a Plate
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index