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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Chen, Yong.     Subjects     Cooking, Chinese.     Chinese -- United States -- Social life and customs.     Food habits -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Chen, Yong.       by title:      Chop suey, USA [elec...         MARC Display

Chop suey, USA [electronic resource] : the story of Chinese food in America / Yong Chen. by Chen, Yong. New York : Columbia University Press, 2014. Subjects Cooking, Chinese.   Chinese -- United States -- Social life and customs.   Food habits -- United States -- History. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=31A265DF-CBD0-410D-963E-82F0A983F847 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{31A265DF-CBD0-410D-963E-82F0A983F847}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780231538169 (electronic bk.) 0231538162 (electronic bk.) Series:  Arts and traditions of the table. Description:  1 online resource (325 p.) Contents:  Table of Contents; Preface: The Genesis of the Book; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Chop Suey, the Big Mac of the Pre-McDonald's Era; 2. The Empire and Empire Food; 3. Chinese Cooks as Stewards of Empire; 4. The Cradle of Chinese Food; 5. The Rise of Chinese Restaurants; 6. The Makers of American Chinese Food; 7. "Chinese-American Cuisine" and the Authenticity of Chop Suey; 8. The Chinese Brillat-Savarin; Illustrations; Conclusion: The Home of No Return; Afterword: Why Study Food?; Notes; Bibliography; Index Requests:  0 Summary:  American diners began flocking to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese cuisine the first mass-consumed food in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA is the first comprehensive analysis of the forces that made Chinese food ubiquitous in the American gastronomic landscape and turned the country into an empire of consumption. Chinese food's transpacific migration and commercial success is both an epic story of global cultural exchange and a history of the socioeconomic, political, and cultural developments that.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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