Food across borders /edited by Matt Garcia, E. Melanie Dupuis, and Don Mitchell.

Food across borders /edited by Matt Garcia, E. Melanie Dupuis, and Don Mitchell. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Food across borders : an introduction / Afro-Latina/os' culinary subjectivities : rooting ethnicities through root vegetables / Mexican cookery that belongs to the United States : evolving boundaries of whiteness in New Mexican kitchens / Cooking Mexican : negotiating nostalgia in family-owned and small-scale Mexican restaurants in the United States / Chasing the yum : food procurement and Thai American community formation in an era of free trade / Crossing chiles, crossing borders : Dr. Fabian Garcia, the New Mexican chile pepper, and modernity in the early twentieth-century US-Mexico borderlands / Constructing borderless foods : the Quartermaster Corps and World War II Army subsistence / Bittersweet : food, gender and the state in the US and Canadian Wests during World War I / The place that feeds you : allotment and the struggle for Blackfeet food sovereignty / Eating far from home : Latino/a workers and food sovereignty in rural Vermont / Milking networks for all they're worth : precarious migrant life and the process of consent on New York dairies / Crossing borders, overcoming boundaries : Latino immigrant farmers and a new sense of home in the United States / (Re)producing ethnic difference : solidarity trade, indigeneity, and colonialism in the global quinoa boom / E. Melanie Dupuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell -- Meredith E. Abarca -- Katherine Massoth -- Jose Antonio Vázquez-Medina -- Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt -- William Carleton -- Kellen Backer -- Mary Murphy -- Michael Wise -- Teresa M. Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar -- Kathleen Sexsmith -- Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern -- Marygold Walsh-Dilley.

The act of eating defines and redefines borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.



9780813592008 9780813591988


Cooking, American--Social aspects.
Food habits--North America.


Electronic Books.

GT2853 / .F663 2017