- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles'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, 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, politics, and tastes of Thai food for the first time, all while demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected places"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- American crossroads
- Uniform Title
- Flavors of empire (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Flavors of empire (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- "One night in Bangkok" : food and the everyday life of empire -- "Chasing the yum" : food procurement and early Thai Los Angeles -- Too hot to handle? restaurants and Thai American identity -- "More than a place of worship" : food festivals and Thai American suburban culture -- Thailand's "77th province" : culinary tourism in Thai Town.
- ISBN
- 9780520966925 (epub)
- LCCN
- 2017019088
- OCLC
- ssj0001855591
- Author
Padoongpatt, Mark.
- Title
Flavors of empire [electronic resource] : food and the making of Thai America / Mark Padoongpatt.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Series
American crossroads
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Padoongpatt, Mark, author. Flavors of empire Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520293731 (DLC) 2017016679