Sameness in Diversity by Laresh Jayasanker
Americans of the 1960s would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. Once-exotic ingredients--like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk--have become standard in the contemporary American diet. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded since the 1960s: immigrants have created demand for produce and other foods from their homelands; grocers and food processors have sought to market new foods; and transportation improvements have enabled food companies to bring those foods from afar. Yet, even as choices within stores have exploded, supermarket chains have consolidated. Throughout the food industry, fewer companies manage production and distribution, controlling what American consumers can access. Mining a wealth of menus, cookbooks, trade publications, interviews, and company records, Jayasanker explores Americans' changing eating habits to shed light on the impact of immigration and globalization on American culture.-
Food Politics
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Cuisine and Empire
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The Queen of Fats
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Encyclopedia of Pasta
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Ways of Eating
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Why Calories Count
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A History of Cookbooks
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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen
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Safe Food
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Let's Ask Marion
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Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
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Nile Nightshade
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The Taste of Place
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Culinary Ephemera
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The Darjeeling Distinction
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Divided Spirits
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The Art of Cooking
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Free for All
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Wonder Foods
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Coffee Life in Japan
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Revolution at the Table
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The Life of Cheese
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Camembert
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Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar
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Tsukiji
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M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans
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Meals to Come
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American Bread
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A Taste of Power
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Yerba Mate
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Becoming Salmon
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Dangerous Digestion
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Hoptopia
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Tasting French Terroir
"Tensions between homogenizing and diversifying influences in the supply chain throw uncertainty on what we now mean by ‘authenticity’ when it comes to food and cultureThis book would appeal to social scientists, anthropologists, historians and the general public." * Nature *
"The book’s wide range of topics . . . affords an opportunity, especially for non-specialists, to explore many important issues related to agriculture and food in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century United States." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
"The book’s wide range of topics . . . affords an opportunity, especially for non-specialists, to explore many important issues related to agriculture and food in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century United States." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
Laresh Jayasanker (1972–2018) was Associate Professor of History at Metropolitan State University of Denver and the author of numerous articles on food in US history.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780520343955 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520343956 |
| Title | Sameness in Diversity |
| Author | Laresh Jayasanker |
| Series | California Studies In Food And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2020-04-14 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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