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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgments
An Alimentary Introduction
Part I: Labors of Taste
1. Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles
2. Tasting America: The Politics and Pleasures of School Lunch in Hawai‘i
3. A Life Cooking for Others: The Work and Migration Experiences of a Chinese Restaurant Worker in New York City, 1920–1946
4. Learning from Los Kogi Angeles: A Taco Truck and Its City
5. The Significance of Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine in Postcolonial Hawai‘i
Part II: Empires of Food
6. Incarceration, Cafeteria Style: The Politics of the Mess Hall in the Japanese American Incarceration
7. As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating, and Becoming Filipina/o American before World War II
8. Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with Adobo: The American Relationship with Filipino Food, 1898–1946
9. “Oriental Cookery”: Devouring Asian and Pacific Cuisine during the Cold War
10. Gannenshoyu or First-Year Soy Sauce? Kikkoman Soy Sauce and the Corporate Forgetting of the Early Japanese American Consumer
Part III: Fusion, Diffusion, Confusion?
11. Twenty-First-Century Food Trucks: Mobility, Social Media, and Urban Hipness
12. Samsa on Sheepshead Bay: Tracing Uzbek Foodprints in Southern Brooklyn
13. Apple Pie and Makizushi: Japanese American Women Sustaining Family and Community
14. Giving Credit Where It Is Due: Asian American Farmers and Retailers as Food System Pioneers
15. Beyond Authenticity: Rerouting the Filipino Culinary Diaspora
Part IV: Readable Feasts
16. Acting Asian American, Eating Asian American: The Politics of Race and Food in Don Lee’s Wrack and Ruin
17. Devouring Hawai‘i: Food, Consumption, and Contemporary Art
18. “Love Is Not a Bowl of Quinces”: Food, Desire, and the Queer Asian Body in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt
19. The Globe at the Table: How Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian Reconfigures the World
20. Perfection on a Plate: Readings in the South Asian Transnational Queer Kitchen
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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