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Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (American Crossroads)

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With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles’s and The us’s culinary scene within the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the upward push of Thai food and how it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community. Full of vivid oral histories and new archival material, this book explores the factors that made foodways central to the Thai American experience. Starting with American Cold War intervention in Thailand, Mark Padoongpatt traces how informal empire allowed U.S. citizens to find Thai cuisine in a foreign country and introduce it inside the USA. When Thais arrived in Los Angeles, they reinvented and repackaged Thai food in more than a few how you can meet the rising popularity of the cuisine in urban and suburban spaces. Padoongpatt opens up the history and politics of Thai food for the first time, all at the same time as demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected places.
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