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1 online resource (xi, 204 pages) |
| Summary |
"While eating is a universal experience, for Singaporeans it carries strong everyday and 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 the Nation, Tarulevicz argues that in a society that has undergone substational change in a relatively short amount of time, food serves Singaporeans as a poignant connection to the ever-changing past. Eating, the how and the what, has provided a unifying experience for a diverse society; a metaphor for multiracialism and recognizable national symbols for a fledgling state. Using food as a category of analysis, and analyzing a variety of sources that range from cookbooks to architectural and city plans, Tarulevicz gives the reader a thematic history of this unusual country, which was colonized by the British and run as a port within Malaya, but which is without a substantial pre-colonial history. In doing so, Tarulevicz moves away from the predominately political and economic focus of other historians of Singapore, and provides an important alternative reading of Singaporean society"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-197) and index. |
| Contents |
Audacious fusion : thinking about Singaporean cuisine -- A brief history of Singapore -- Making the past the present : food in a multiracial port city -- Public spaces, public bodies -- The kitchen : invariably offstage -- Jam tarts, spotted dicks, and curry -- The pizza of love -- Picked in their fresh young prime -- Food sluts and the marketing of Singaporean cuisine -- More than just food. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Food habits -- Singapore.
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Food preferences -- Singapore.
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Singapore -- Social life and customs.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
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Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
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Food preferences. (OCoLC)fst00930981
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Singapore. (OCoLC)fst01205288
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tarulevicz, Nicole. Eating her curries and kway 9780252038099 (DLC) 2013031280 (OCoLC)843858203 |
| ISBN |
9780252095368 (electronic bk.) |
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0252095367 (electronic bk.) |
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1306980755 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306980753 (electronic bk.) |
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