The Taco Truck : How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City /

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"The Taco Truck examines how the social spaces of Mexican immigrant owned taco trucks are transforming the urban landscapes of the Bay Area, CA, Sacramento, CA, and Columbus, OH, and are consequently challenging many preconceived notions of the ways in which urban spaces are designed and planne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lemon, Robert, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tacos.
Mexican Americans > Nutrition.
Manners and customs.
Hispanic Americans > Social life and customs.
Food trucks.
Food habits > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
COOKING > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
COOKING > Regional & Ethnic > Mexican.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Habitudes alimentaires > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Tacos > États-Unis.
Camions de cuisine de rue > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine latino-americaine > Moeurs et coutumes.
Food habits > Social aspects > United States.
Tacos > United States.
Food trucks > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes > 21e siecle.
United States > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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