Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader collects burgeoning new scholarship in Asian American Studies that centers the study of foodways and culinary practices in our understanding of the racialized underpinnings of Asian Americanness.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Maps
• Acknowledgments
• An Alimentary Introduction Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur
• PART I: LABORS OF TASTE
• 1. Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles Erin M. Curtis
• 2. Tasting America: The Politics and Pleasures of School Lunch in Hawai‘i Christine R. Yano (with Wanda Adams)
• 3. A Life Cooking for Others: The Work and Migration Experiences of a Chinese Restaurant Worker in New York City, 1920–1946 Heather R. Lee
• 4. Learning from Los Kogi Angeles: A Taco Truck and Its City Oliver Wang
• 5. The Significance of Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine in Postcolonial Hawai‘i Samuel Hideo Yamashita
• PART II: EMPIRES OF FOOD
• 6. Incarceration, Cafeteria Style: The Politics of the Mess Hall in the Japanese American Incarceration Heidi Kathleen Kim
• 7. As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating, and Becoming Filipina/o American before World War II Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
• 8. Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with Adobo: The American Relationship with Filipino Food, 1898–1946 René Alexander Orquiza Jr.
• 9. “Oriental Cookery”: Devouring Asian and Pacific Cuisine during the Cold War Mark Padoongpatt
• 10. Gannenshoyu or First-Year Soy Sauce? Kikkoman Soy Sauce and the Corporate Forgetting of the Early Japanese American Consumer Robert Ji-Song Ku
• PART III: FUSION, DIFFUSION, CONFUSION?
• 11. Twenty-First-Century Food Trucks: Mobility, Social Media, and Urban Hipness Lok Siu
• 12. Samsa on Sheepshead Bay: Tracing Uzbek Foodprints in Southern Brooklyn Zohra Saed
• 13. Apple Pie and Makizushi: Japanese American Women Sustaining Family and Community Valerie J. Matsumoto
• 14. Giving Credit Where It Is Due: Asian American Farmers and Retailers as Food System Pioneers Nina F. Ichikawa
• 15. Beyond Authenticity: Rerouting the Filipino Culinary Diaspora Martin F. Manalansan IV
• PART IV: READABLE FEASTS
• 16. Acting Asian American, Eating Asian American: The Politics of Race and Food in Don Lee's Wrack and Ruin Jennifer Ho
• 17. Devouring Hawai‘i: Food, Consumption, and Contemporary Art Margo Machida
• 18. “Love Is Not a Bowl of Quinces”: Food, Desire, and the Queer Asian Body in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt Denise Cruz
• 19. The Globe at the Table: How Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian Reconfigures the World Delores B. Phillips
• 20. Perfection on a Plate: Readings in the South Asian Transnational Queer Kitchen Anita Mannur
• Bibliography
• Contributors