Planet taco : a global history of Mexican food / / Jeffrey M. Pilcher
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| Autore: |
Pilcher Jeffrey M. <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Planet taco : a global history of Mexican food / / Jeffrey M. Pilcher
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 641.5972 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cooking, Mexican - History |
| Cooking, Mexican - Social aspects - History | |
| Ethnicity - Mexico | |
| Food habits - Mexico - History | |
| Globalization - Social aspects - History | |
| Mexican Americans - Food - History | |
| Sovereignty - Social aspects - Mexico - History | |
| Tacos - History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-282) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: A Tale of Two Tacos -- Part I. Proto-Tacos -- Maize and the Making of Mexico -- Burritos in the Borderlands -- Part II. National Tacos -- From the Pastry War to Parisian Mole -- The Rise and Fall of the Chili Queens -- Inventing the Mexican American Taco -- Part III. Global Tacos -- The First Wave of Global Mexican -- The Blue Corn Bonanza -- Conclusion: The Battle of the Taco Trucks -- Glossary. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Planet Taco examines the historical struggles between globalization and national sovereignty in the creation of "authentic" Mexican food. By telling the stories of the "Chili Queens" of San Antonio and the inventors of the taco shell, it shows how Mexican Americans helped to make Mexican food global. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Planet taco |
| ISBN: | 0-19-065577-1 |
| 0-19-990848-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813032203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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