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The first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgments An Alimentary Introduction Part I 1. Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles 2. Tasting America 3. A Life Cooking for Others 4. Learning from Los Kogi Angeles 5. The Significance of Hawai'i Regional Cuisine in Postcolonial Hawai'i Part II 6. Incarceration, Cafeteria Style 7. As American as Jackrabbit Adobo 8. Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with Adobo 9. "Oriental Cookery" 10. Gannenshoyu or First-Year Soy Sauce? Kikkoman Soy Sauce and the Corporate Forgetting of the Early Japanese American ConsumerPart III 11. Twenty-First-Century Food Trucks 12. Samsa on Sheepshead Bay 13. Apple Pie and Makizushi 14. Giving Credit Where It Is Due 15. Beyond AuthenticityPart IV 16. Acting Asian American, Eating Asian American 17. Devouring Hawai'i 18. "Love Is Not a Bowl of Quinces" 19. The Globe at the Table 20. Perfection on a PlateBibliography ContributorsIndex

About the Author

Robert Ji-Song Ku (Editor)
Robert Ji-Song Ku is Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University and the Managing Editor of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. He is the author of Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA.
Martin F. Manalansan (Editor)
Martin F. Manalansan IV is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, New York University, New School University, and the University of the Philippines. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke UP:2003). His forthcoming book is entitled “Queer Dwellings: Mess, Mesh, Measure.” He is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies.
Anita Mannur (Editor)
Anita Mannur is Professor in the Department of English at Miami University and author of Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures and Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Cultures. She is the 2019 recipient of the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.

Reviews

"Full of provocation and insight, this collection productively investigates the complicated and often racialized relationships between consumer, producer, and nation. Foundational in its interdisciplinary, transnational critique of cuisine-driven multiculturalism, Eating Asian America skillfully navigates the vexed terrain of food politics."-Cathy J. Schlund-Vials,author of War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work