American Crossroads: Flavors of Empire : Food and the Making of Thai America (Series #45) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)
American Crossroads: Flavors of Empire : Food and the Making of Thai America (Series #45) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)
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American Crossroads: Flavors of Empire : Food and the Making of Thai America (Series #45) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

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With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles’s and America’s culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way 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 discover Thai cuisine abroad and introduce it inside the United States. When Thais arrived in Los Angeles, they reinvented and repackaged Thai food in various ways to 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 while demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected places.
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Jul 17, 2019
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Definitely not a Thai person's point of view.

Not at all what was expected. The title is deceiving. The content does not offer a solid outlook on the history trail, Seems more focused on LA history. It's very impersonal towards the Las Vegas history. Gives a feel like the author has not actually experienced anything within the community itself, but rather basing his finding on second party events. Where are the updates? The book seems to have focused on the early days then everyone fell of the face of the earth with no continued interaction. Bland Not recommended.

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