Culinary Tourism
"From Kosher Oreos to the gentrification of Mexican cusine, from the charismatic cook of Basque communities in Spain and the United States to the mainstreaming of southwestern foodways, Culinary Tourism maps a lively cultural and intellectual terrain."—from the foreword by Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettCulinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue that the sensory experience of eating provides people with a unique means of communication. Editor Lucy Long contends that although the interest in experiencing "otherness" is strong within American society, total immersion into the unfamiliar is not always welcome. Thus spicy flavors of Latin Aermcia and the exotic ingredients of Asia have been mainstreamed for everyday consumption. Culinary Tourism explains how and why interest in foreign food is expanding tastes and leading to commercial profit in America, but the book also show how tourism combines personal experiences with cultural and social attitudes toward food and the circumstances for adventurous eating.

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Culinary Tourism
"From Kosher Oreos to the gentrification of Mexican cusine, from the charismatic cook of Basque communities in Spain and the United States to the mainstreaming of southwestern foodways, Culinary Tourism maps a lively cultural and intellectual terrain."—from the foreword by Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettCulinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue that the sensory experience of eating provides people with a unique means of communication. Editor Lucy Long contends that although the interest in experiencing "otherness" is strong within American society, total immersion into the unfamiliar is not always welcome. Thus spicy flavors of Latin Aermcia and the exotic ingredients of Asia have been mainstreamed for everyday consumption. Culinary Tourism explains how and why interest in foreign food is expanding tastes and leading to commercial profit in America, but the book also show how tourism combines personal experiences with cultural and social attitudes toward food and the circumstances for adventurous eating.

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"From Kosher Oreos to the gentrification of Mexican cusine, from the charismatic cook of Basque communities in Spain and the United States to the mainstreaming of southwestern foodways, Culinary Tourism maps a lively cultural and intellectual terrain."—from the foreword by Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettCulinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue that the sensory experience of eating provides people with a unique means of communication. Editor Lucy Long contends that although the interest in experiencing "otherness" is strong within American society, total immersion into the unfamiliar is not always welcome. Thus spicy flavors of Latin Aermcia and the exotic ingredients of Asia have been mainstreamed for everyday consumption. Culinary Tourism explains how and why interest in foreign food is expanding tastes and leading to commercial profit in America, but the book also show how tourism combines personal experiences with cultural and social attitudes toward food and the circumstances for adventurous eating.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813122922
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 12/26/2003
Series: Material Worlds
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Lucy M. Long teaches folklore and food studies in the International Studies and American Culture Studies Programs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is the editor of the American Folklore Society's foodways section journal, Digest.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
Forewordxi
Introduction1
Chapter 1.Culinary Tourism: A Folkloristic Perspective on Eating and Otherness20
Part 1.Culinary Tourism in Public and Commercial Contexts51
Chapter 2.Tasting an Imagined Thailand: Authenticity and Culinary Tourism in Thai Restaurants53
Chapter 3.From "Montezuma's Revenge" to "Mexican Truffles": Culinary Tourism across the Rio Grande76
Chapter 4.Flavors of Memory: Jewish Food as Culinary Tourism in Poland97
Chapter 5.Incorporating the Local Tourist at the Big Island Poke Festival114
Part 2.Culinary Tourism in Private and Domestic Contexts129
Chapter 6."Of Course, in Guatemala, Bananas are Better": Exotic and Familiar Eating Experiences of Mormon Missionaries131
Chapter 7.Kashering the Melting Pot: Oreos, Sushi Restaurants, "Kosher Treif," and the Observant American Jew157
Chapter 8.Culinary Tourism among Basques and Basque Americans: Maintenance and Inventions186
Part 3.Culinary Tourism in Constructed and Emerging Contexts207
Chapter 9.From Culinary Other to Mainstream America: Meanings and Uses of Southwestern Cuisine209
Chapter 10.Rites of Intensification: Eating and Ethnicity in the Catskills226
Chapter 11.Pass the Tofu, Please: Asian Food for Aging Baby Boomers245
Chapter 12.Ethnic Heritage Food in Lindsborg, Kansas, and New Glarus, Wisconsin268
Contributors297
Index301
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