{"product_id":"we-are-what-we-eat","title":"We Are What We Eat","description":"\u003cp\u003eGhulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in  Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How ethnicity has  influenced American eating habits—and thus, the make-up and direction of  the American cultural mainstream—is the story told in \u003ci\u003eWe Are What We Eat\u003c\/i\u003e.  It is a complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of  entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political  symbol and weapon—and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary  tradition of multiculturalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of successive  generations of Americans experimenting with their new neighbors’ foods  highlights the marketplace as an important arena for defining and  expressing ethnic identities and relationships. \u003ci\u003eWe Are What We Eat\u003c\/i\u003e  follows the fortunes of dozens of enterprising immigrant cooks and  grocers, street hawkers and restaurateurs who have cultivated and  changed the tastes of native-born Americans from the seventeenth century  to the present. It also tells of the mass corporate production of foods  like spaghetti, bagels, corn chips, and salsa, obliterating their  ethnic identities. The book draws a surprisingly peaceful picture of  American ethnic relations, in which “Americanized” foods like  Spaghetti-Os happily coexist with painstakingly pure ethnic dishes and  creative hybrids.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we  are what we eat, who are we? Americans’ multi-ethnic eating is a  constant reminder of how widespread, and mutually enjoyable, ethnic  interaction has sometimes been in the United States. Amid our wrangling  over immigration and tribal differences, it reveals that on a basic  level, in the way we sustain life and seek pleasure, we are all  multicultural.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222042136920,"sku":"9780674001909","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674001909.jpg?v=1770271243","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/we-are-what-we-eat","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}