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Title: Fed by the Other. City Food and Somatic Difference

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Excessive attention to territorialized taste – linked to terroir – has elided over the fact that tastes travel. They travel quite well, obviously in terms of produce as the history of potatoes, chilies, and tomatoes show, or as stimulants such as coffee, tea and chocolate illuminate, but also via immigrant-designed food businesses in global cities. Urban Americans have been fed by the foreign-born since we have historical records. Based on census data, newspaper records, and interviews with immigrant entrepreneurs and native consumers, this article takes the case of South Asian restaurateurs in New York City, to argue that transactions around literal tastes can provide an instructive window into power and urban cultures.

Url: https://ugp.rug.nl/groniek/article/view/22705

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Authors: Ray, Krishnendu

Periodical (Full): Groniek

Issue: 202

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Pages: 67-84

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