| Contents |
An alimentary introduction / Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur -- Cambodian donut shops and the negotiation of identity in Los Angeles / Erin M. Curtis -- Tasting America : the politics and pleasures of school lunch in Hawaiʻi / Christine R. Yano (with Wanda Adams) -- A life cooking for others : the work and migration experiences of a Chinese restaurant worker in New York City, 1920-1946 / Heather R. Lee -- Learning from Los Kogi Angeles : a taco truck and its city / Oliver Wang -- The significance of Hawaiʻi regional cuisine in postcolonial Hawaiʻi / Samuel Hideo Yamashita -- Incarceration, cafeteria style : the politics of the mess hall in the Japanese American incarceration / Heidi Kathleen Kim -- As American as jackrabbit adobo : cooking, eating, and becoming Filipina/o American before World War II / Dawn Bohulano Mabalon -- Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with Adobo : the American relationship with Filipino food, 1896-1946 / René Alexander Orquiza Jr. -- "Oriental cookery" : devouring Asian and Pacific cuisine during the Cold War / Mark Padoongpatt -- Gannenshoyu or first-year soy sauce? Kikkoman soy sauce and the corporate forgetting of the early Japanese American consumer / Robert Ji-Song Ku -- Twenty-first-century food trucks : mobility, social media, and urban hipness / Lok Siu -- Samsa on Sheepshead Bay : tracing Uzbek foodprints in southern Brooklyn / Zohra Saed -- Apple pie and makizushi : Japanese American women sustaining family and community / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Giving credit where it is due : Asian American farmers and retailers as food system pioneers / Nina F. Ichikawa -- Beyond authenticity : rerouting the Filipino culinary diaspora / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Acting Asian American, eating Asian American : the politics of race and food in Don Lee's Wrack and ruin / Jennifer Ho -- Devouring Hawaiʻi : food, consumption, and contemporary art / Margo Machida -- "Love is not a bowl of quinces " : food, desire, and the queer Asian body in Monique Truong's The book of salt / Denise Cruz -- The globe at the table : how Madhur Jaffrey's World vegetarian reconfigures the world / Delores B. Phillips -- Perfection on a plate : readings in the South Asian transnational queer kitchen / Anita Mannur. |
