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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484644303321

Autore

Leong-Salobir Cecilia

Titolo

Urban Food Culture : Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore in the Twentieth Century / / by Cecilia Leong-Salobir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9781137516916

1137516917

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Disciplina

394.120994

Soggetti

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Nutrition

Emigration and immigration

Imperialism

Asian Culture

Human Migration

Imperialism and Colonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Sydney Flavours: From Convict Colony to Cosmopolitan City -- 3. Shanghai: From Treaty Port to Global City -- 4. Singapore: Tasting the City -- 5. Colonial Legacies: Curries and Other Hybridities -- 6. Restaurants, Cafes and Street Food -- 7. Markets and Supermarkets -- 8. Cookbooks: Recipes and Culinary Tales.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the food history of twentieth-century Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore within an Asian Pacific network of flux and flows. It engages with a range of historical perspectives on each city’s food and culinary histories, including colonial culinary legacies, restaurants, cafes, street food, market gardens, supermarkets and cookbooks, examining the exchange of goods and services and how the migration of people to the urban centres informed the social histories of the cities’ foodways in the contexts of culinary nationalism, ethnic identities and globalization. Considering the recent food history



of the three cities and its complex narrative of empire, trade networks and migration patterns, this book discusses key aspects of each city’s cuisine in the twentieth century, examining the interwoven threads of colonialism and globalization.