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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America Volume 45

Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America Volume 45

Padoongpatt, Mark

Paperback

Series: American Crossroads, Book 45

Food WritingAsian Cooking GeneralGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0520293746
ISBN13: 9780520293748
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Sep 19 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles's and America's culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community. Full of vivid oral histories and new archival material, this book explores the factors that made foodways central to the Thai American experience. Starting with American Cold War intervention in Thailand, Mark Padoongpatt traces how informal empire allowed U.S. citizens to discover Thai cuisine abroad and introduce it inside the United States. When Thais arrived in Los Angeles, they reinvented and repackaged Thai food in various ways to meet the rising popularity of the cuisine in urban and suburban spaces. Padoongpatt opens up the history and politics of Thai food for the first time, all while demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected places.

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