Chow chop suey : food and the Chinese American journey /
"Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Arts and traditions of the table.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen
- PART I
- 1. Origins: The Toisan
- California Pipeline
- 2. The Culinary "Language" Barrier
- 3. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain
- 4. The Road to Chinatown
- PART II
- 5. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine
- 6. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators"
- 7. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine
- 8. An Advancement of Learning
- 9. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration
- Postscript: What Might Have Been.