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| China to Chinatown: Chinese Food in the West (Globalities) | 
 enlarge | Author: J.a.g Roberts
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Category: Book
Buy New: $19.50
New (8) Used (5) from $19.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1111484
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1861892276
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.595109
EAN: 9781861892270
ASIN: 1861892276
Publication Date: September 15, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Cats Eyes and Chow Mein February 11, 2006
The book 'From China to Chinatown' gives a great overview of the history of Chinese food, but only concerning attidutes westerners have towards it.
Part I is about the views from mostly travellogs from Europeans in China. From Marco Polo to know we see what has horrified them like the eating of cats and dogs, rats and such. It shows also that the eating culture in China is somewhat linked to the political culture as well.
Part II is about the Chinese food in the West, notably the US (stressing California the most) and England. We see how tastes have been changing over two years and how the food is geared towards the western taste. Chow Mein for example was developed in America.
If you like Chinese food and all it's facets this book is money well spent.
How the most exotic of cuisines becomes the most familiar April 20, 2005
It'll take more than one book to help us grasp how the most alien of cuisines became the most commodified, but J. A. G. Roberts' book is an important beginning. Well researched and well thought-out, it is also a great read, highly suggestive without bogging us down with ponderous sociology. Half a day later you'll want to read it again.
 How Fried Rice & Spring Rolls Became Part of Our Diet October 27, 2004
I had been waiting for a book like this - a major addition to the canon on Chinese food. Lots of great stories from both the east and west. It focuses on the United States and the United Kingdom. Though it is not a problem, the author is oddly detached, from the stories he retells so well from historical records. It is a little repetitive in the use of examples.
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