Description: Further DetailsTitle: Eating Her Curries and KwayCondition: NewSubtitle: A Cultural History of Food in SingaporeISBN-10: 0252038096EAN: 9780252038099ISBN: 9780252038099Publisher: University of Illinois PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/20/2013Description: Discovering Singaporean identity through cooking and cuisine While eating is a universal experience, for Singaporeans it carries strong national connotations. The popular Singaporean-English phrase "Die die must try" is not so much hyperbole as it is a reflection of the lengths that Singaporeans will go to find great dishes. In Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore, Nicole Tarulevicz argues that in a society that has undergone substantial change in a relatively short amount of time, food serves Singaporeans as a poignant connection to the past. Eating has provided a unifying practice for a diverse society, a metaphor for multiracialism and recognizable national symbols for a fledgling state. Covering the period from British settlement in 1819 to the present and focusing on the post–1965 postcolonial era, Tarulevicz tells the story of Singapore through the production and consumption of food. Analyzing a variety of sources that range from cookbooks to architectural and city plans, Tarulevicz offer a thematic history of this unusual country, which was colonized by the British and operated as a port within Malaya. Connecting food culture to the larger history of Singapore, she discusses various topics including domesticity and home economics, housing and architecture, advertising, and the regulation of food-related manners and public behavior such as hawking, littering, and chewing gum. Moving away from the predominantly political and economic focus of other histories of Singapore, Eating Her Curries and Kway provides an important alternative reading of Singaporean society. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 23mmAuthor: Nicole TaruleviczGenre: Food & DrinkItem Weight: 481gRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Eating Her Curries and Kway
Title: Eating Her Curries and Kway
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore
ISBN-10: 0252038096
EAN: 9780252038099
ISBN: 9780252038099
Release Date: 12/20/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Food & Drink
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Eating Her Curries and Kway : a Cultural History of Food in Singapore
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, Sociology / General, General, Regional & Ethnic / Asian, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Cooking, Social Science, History
Author: Nicole Tarulevicz
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
