1st Edition
Local Foods Meet Global Foodways Tasting History
1. Introduction: Traversing the Local/Global and Food/Culture Divides, Carolyn de la Peña and Benjamin N. Lawrance.
2. ‘Milk for "Growth": Global and Local Meanings of Milk Consumption in China, India, and the United States’, Andrea S. Wiley.
3. ‘Appetites Without Prejudice: U.S. Foreign Restaurants and the Globalization of American Food Between the Wars’, Audrey Russek.
4. ‘Virginia Ham: The Local and Global of Colonial Foodways’, Megan E. Edwards.
5. ‘Making White Bread by the Bomb's Early Light: Anxiety, Abundance, and Industrial Food Power in the Early Cold War’, Aaron Bobrow-Strain.
6. ‘"To Avoid This Mixture": Rethinking Pulque in Colonial Mexico City’, Daniel Nemser.
7. ‘"To Make a Curry the India Way": Tracking the Meaning of Curry Across Eighteenth-Century Communities’, Stephanie R. Maroney.
8. ‘The "Coffee Doctors": The Language of Taste and the Rise of Rwanda's Specialty Bean Value’, Jenny Elaine Goldstein.
9. ‘Fast Food and Nutritional Perceptions in the Age of "Globesity": Perspectives from the Provincial Philippines’, Ty Matejowsky.
10. ‘A House of Honey: White Sugar, Brown Sugar, and the Taste for Modernity in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia’, G. Roger Knight.
11. Afterword, Rachel Laudan.
Biography
Benjamin N. Lawrance, Ph.D. is the Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Chair of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is the author of Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and the Experiences of Women and Children in Africa (2012), Locality, Mobility, and ‘Nation’ (2007), Interpreters, Intermediaries and Clerks (2006), and The Ewe of Togo and Benin (2006).
Carolyn de la Peña is a Professor of American Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of California at Davis, USA. Her most recent book is Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (2010).
