Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer

ISBN-13: 9780415943857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 296 str.

Lisa Heldke;Heldke Lisa

Opis

This is a far-reaching exploration of what Lisa Heldke calls food adventuring: the passion, fashion and pursuit of the experimentation with ethnic foods. Exotic Appetites brings to the table the critical literatures on colonialism and anti-colonialism, on racism and anti-racism, and on feminist theory, in a provocative discussion of eating and ethnic food. Chapters examine the meanings and socio-political implications involved in the quest for new and interesting restaurants and exotic dishes, restaurant reviews and dining guides and ethnic cookbooks.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction: Leaving Home: One Girl's Story Part One: Let's Eat Chinese 1. The Quest for Novelty 2. The Pursuit of Authenticity 3. The Other as Resource Part Two: How I Ate Civet Cat and Lived to Tell the Tale 4. And Reader, We Ate It 5. What Do You Mean We Can't Film the Market Sequence Here? Part Three: Let's Cook Thai 6. Can the Dough Boy Be an Insider? 7. How to Stuff a Wild Zucchini 8. Aided by My Faithful Old Family Cook Part Four: Toward Anticolonialist Eating 9. Okay, Let's Stay Home 10. The Skeptical Palate 11. Eating in Context Epilogue: Returning to the Garden Notes Bibliography

O autorze

Lisa Heldke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she also teaches in the Women's Studies department.