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Can I read We Are What We Eat : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans on EtoBox?
We Are What We Eat : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans by Donna R. Gabaccia; [illustrations by Susan Keller] is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is We Are What We Eat : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans about?
Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How ethnicity has influenced American eating habits—and thus, the make-up and direction of the American cultural mainstream—is the story told in We Are What We Eat. It is a complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon—and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition
Who reads We Are What We Eat : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Donna R. Gabaccia; [illustrations by Susan Keller]
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674001909
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Cooking, Folklore
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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