Jeffrey M Pilcher

Planet Taco

A Global History of Mexican Food

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Planet Taco examines the historical struggles between globalization and national sovereignty in the creation of "authentic" Mexican food. By telling the stories of the "Chili Queens" of San Antonio and the inventors of the taco shell, it shows how Mexican Americans helped to make Mexican food global.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780190655778
• ISBN-10: 0190655771
• Artikelnr.: 47864088

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey M. Pilcher is Professor of History at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity; The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City; and Food in World History. He also edited the Oxford Handbook of Food History.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction A Tale of Two Tacos
Part I Proto-Tacos
Chapter 1. Maize and the Making of Mexico
Chapter 2. Burritos in the Borderlands
Part II National Tacos
Chapter 3. From the Pastry War to Parisian Mole
Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall of the Chili Queens
Chapter 5. Inventing the Mexican American Taco
Part III Global Tacos
Chapter 6. The First Wave of Global Mexican
Chapter 7. The Blue Corn Bonanza
Conclusion The Battle of the Taco Trucks
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index