Food and Culture: Ethnic Foodways

Equal opportunity eating / Roger Abrahams -- Ethnic foodways in America / Susan Kalčik -- A framework for the analysis of continuity and change in shared sociocultural rules for food use / Judith Goode, Janet Theophano, and Karen Curtis -- Metaphor and changing reality / Willard B. Moore -- Why migrant women feed their husbands tamales / Brett Williams -- Food and celebration / Leslie Prosterman -- A wilderness in the megalopolis / Angus K. Gillespie -- The social and symbolic uses of ethnic/regional foodways / C. Paige Gutierrez -- Exotic foods among Italian-Americans in Mormon Utah / Richard Raspa -- Conversion through foodways enculturation / Eliot A. Singer -- Economic, social, and cultural factors in the analysis of disease / Sandra K. Joos -- Food for ethnic Americans / Judy Perkin and Stephanie F. McCann

Starter : restaurants, ideal postmodern institutions / David Beriss and David Sutton -- Tight spaces and salsa-stained aprons : bodies at work in American restaurants / Karla Erickson -- Forming family identity in an American Chinese restaurant : one person's transformational process / Michael Hernandez -- Tasting Wisconsin : a chef's story / Amy Trubek -- Side dish kitchens : Japanese American delicatessens and the culture of nostalgia / Christine Yano -- Familiarity, ambience and intentionality : an investigation into casual dining restaurants in central Illinois / Derek Pardue -- Serving the past on a platter : cultural revolution restaurants in contemporary China / Jennifer Hubbert -- Ethnic succession and the new American restaurant cuisine / Krishnendu Ray -- From Khatchapuri to gefilte fish : dining out and spectacle in Russian Jewish New York / Eve Jochnowitz -- Daughters, duty and deference in the Franco-Chinese restaurant / Winnie Lem -- Authentic Creole : tourism, style and calamity in New Orleans restaurants / David Beriss -- Food, family and tradition in northern Italy : the rise and fall of a Michelin-starred family restaurant / Gerald Mars -- Tipping : an anthropological meditation / David Sutton -- Digestif : postprandial imaginings / Michael Herzfeld

Using long-forgotten WPA files archived in the Library of Congress, bestselling author Mark Kurlansky paints a detailed picture of Depression Era Americans through the food that they ate and the local traditions and customs they observed when planning and preparing meals