The Migrants Table: Meals And Memories In - Softcover

Krishnendu Ray

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9781592130962: The Migrants Table: Meals And Memories In
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ISBN 10: 1592130968 ISBN 13: 9781592130962
Publisher: Temple University Press, 2004

Synopsis

To most of us the food that we associate with home - our national and familial homes - is an essential part of our cultural heritage. No matter how open we become to other cuisines, we regard home-cooking as an intrinsic part of who we are. In this book, Krishnendu Ray examines the changing food habits of Bengali immigrants to the United States as they deal with the tension between their nostalgia for home and their desire to escape from its confinements. As Ray says, This is a story about rice and water and the violations of geography by history. Focusing on mundane matters of immigrant life (for example, what to eat for breakfast in America), he connects food choices to issues of globalization and modernization.By showing how Bengali immigrants decide what defines their ethnic cuisine and differentiates it from American food, he reminds us that such boundaries are uncertain for all newcomers.

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About the Author

Krishnendu Ray is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts and Management at the Culinary Institute of America.

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"The Migrant's Table will make a major contribution to our understanding of modernization, globalization, immigration, and neo-ethnicity. We can see how migrants are quintessentially modern in placing great hope in the future while also seeking to anchor their identity in nostalgia for the past. The discussion of how immigrants have adapted to the 4th of July and Thanksgiving is brilliant and eye-opening. Ray is one of the most astute, well-grounded commentators working in the field of food studies today. This is an extremely impressive book."
Warren Belasco, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Publisher
Temple University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1592130968
ISBN 13 
9781592130962
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256
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