Asian Food: The Global and the Local

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ISBN: 9780700713332 | 0700713336
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/7/2001

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By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume tries to pinpoint the consequences of the tension between homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Eating Hong Kong's Way Out	p. 16
Acceptance of milk products in Southeast Asia: the case of Indonesia as a traditional non-dairying region	p. 34
Food in middle-class Madras households from the 1970s to the 1990s	p. 46
Ladies who lunch: young women and the domestic fallacy in Japan	p. 63
Wild-gathered foods as countercurrents to dietary globalisation in South Korea	p. 76
Bardot soup and Confucians' meat: food and Korean identity in global context	p. 95
Family hospitality and ethnic tradition among South Asian women in the west of Scotland	p. 116
Eating the homeland: Japanese expatriates in The Netherlands	p. 133
Chinese and Indonesian restaurants and the taste for exotic food in The Netherlands: a global-local trend	p. 153
Warm mushroom sushi? An afterword	p. 167
References	p. 174
List of Contributors	p. 186
Index	p. 188
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