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  • The Global Japanese Restaurant

    Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics

    by Professor James Farrer, David Wank, Monica R. de Carvalho, Christian Hess, Chuanfei Wang, Lenka Vyletalova ...
    Series series Food in Asia and the Pacific
    With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics, ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among restaurateurs ... Read more

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  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Read more

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  • The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

    Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

    by Jennifer 8 Lee ...
    A culinary, social, and cultural history of Chinese restaurants in the United States—"Entertaining. . . . A winner" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review)."Wok on . . . Fascinating . . . Intriguing . . . Fun to read." — New York Times Book ReviewOne woman. One consuming obsession. Forty thousand restaurants.Jennifer 8. Lee's chief mission ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Chinese in Toronto from 1878

    From Outside to Inside the Circle

    by Arlene Chan ...
    The modest beginnings of the Chinese in Toronto and the development of Chinatown is largely due to the completion of the CPR in 1885. No longer requiring the services of the Chinese labourers, a hostile British Columbia sent them eastward in search of employment and a more welcoming place.In 1894 Toronto's Chinese population numbered fifty. Today, no less than seven Chinatowns serve what has ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Community in Toronto

    Then and Now

    by Arlene Chan ...
    Sam Ching, a laundryman, is the first Chinese resident recorded in Toronto's city directory of 1878. A few years later, in 1881, there were 10 Chinese and no sign of a Chinatown. Today, with no less than seven Chinatowns and half a million people, Chinese Canadians have become the second-largest visible minority in the Greater Toronto Area.Stories, photographs, newspaper reports, maps, and charts ... Read more

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  • Living in China

    by Chong Loong Charles Chaw ...
    China has long been regarded as a state of etiquette and ceremonies. Many proverbs relating to the importance of good manners have been passed down generation after generation: "civility costs nothing" and "courtesy demands reciprocity" are among the most popular. ... Read more

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  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

    Edited by John Lorinc ...
    Featured on "The Sunday Magazine" on CBC RadioSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD FOR CULINARY NARRATIVESNearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world’s favourite lump of carbsIf the world's cuisines share one common food, it might be the dumpling, a dish that can be found on every continent and in every culinary ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Chinese New Year

    A Celebration for Everyone

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Series Book 4 - Orca Origins
    From its beginnings as a farming celebration marking the end of winter to its current role as a global party featuring good food, lots of gifts and public parades, Chinese New Year is a snapshot of Chinese culture.Award-winning author and broadcaster Jen Sookfong Lee recalls her childhood in Vancouver and weaves family stories into the history, traditions and evolution of Chinese New Year. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Chop Suey, USA

    The Story of Chinese Food in America

    by Yong Chen ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomic landscape and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Gullet

    Dispatches on Philippine Food

    by Clinton Palanca ...
    In the last ten years, the Philippines has undergone nothing short of a culinary revolution.At first as an expatriate living in London, then eventually fully immersed in the scene as a writer and critic, Philippine Daily Inquirer’s resident food reviewer chronicles the remarkable transformation of gastronomic backwater into a giddy, opulent, and at times overwhelming foodie scene. ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Oishii

    The History of Sushi

    by Eric C. Rath ...
    Sushi and sashimi are by now global sensations and have become perhaps the best-known of Japanese foods, but they are also the most widely misunderstood. Oishii: The History of Sushi reveals that sushi began as a fermented food with a sour taste, used as a means to preserve fish. This book, the first history of sushi in English, traces sushi’s development from China to Japan and then ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants

    by Professor of Psychology Emeritus John Jung ...
    "Sweet and Sour" examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business around the end of the 19th century What conditions made it possible for Chinese to open and succeed in operating restaurants after they emigrated to North America How did Chinese restaurants manage to attract non-Chinese customers, given that they had ... Read more

    $2.99 USD