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The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City
Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence—sometimes desired, sometimes resented—that turns a public street corner into a bustling business.

Drawing on interviews with taco truck workers and his own skills as a geographer, Robert Lemon illuminates new truths about foodways, community, and the unexpected places where ethnicity, class, and culture meet. Lemon focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Columbus, Ohio, to show how the arrival of taco trucks challenge preconceived ideas of urban planning even as cities use them to reinvent whole neighborhoods. As Lemon charts the relationships between food practices and city spaces, he uncovers the many ways residents and politicians alike contest, celebrate, and influence not only where your favorite truck parks, but what's on the menu.

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The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City
Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence—sometimes desired, sometimes resented—that turns a public street corner into a bustling business.

Drawing on interviews with taco truck workers and his own skills as a geographer, Robert Lemon illuminates new truths about foodways, community, and the unexpected places where ethnicity, class, and culture meet. Lemon focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Columbus, Ohio, to show how the arrival of taco trucks challenge preconceived ideas of urban planning even as cities use them to reinvent whole neighborhoods. As Lemon charts the relationships between food practices and city spaces, he uncovers the many ways residents and politicians alike contest, celebrate, and influence not only where your favorite truck parks, but what's on the menu.

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The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City

The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City

by Robert Lemon
The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City
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The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City

The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City

by Robert Lemon

Overview

Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence—sometimes desired, sometimes resented—that turns a public street corner into a bustling business.

Drawing on interviews with taco truck workers and his own skills as a geographer, Robert Lemon illuminates new truths about foodways, community, and the unexpected places where ethnicity, class, and culture meet. Lemon focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Columbus, Ohio, to show how the arrival of taco trucks challenge preconceived ideas of urban planning even as cities use them to reinvent whole neighborhoods. As Lemon charts the relationships between food practices and city spaces, he uncovers the many ways residents and politicians alike contest, celebrate, and influence not only where your favorite truck parks, but what's on the menu.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780252051296
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 05/16/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

Robert Lemon is an urban and social researcher in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas Austin, and an urban and social researcher and documentary filmmaker. His films include Transfusión.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction CHAPTER 1: REMAKING OAKLAND'S STREETS CHAPTER 2: FORMALIZING SAN FRANCISCO'S INFORMAL STREET FOOD VENDORS CHAPTER 3: MAKING SACRAMENTO INTO AN EDIBLE CITY CHAPTER 4: LANDSCAPE, LABOR, AND THE LONCHERA CHAPTER 5: COMMUNITY CONFLICT AND CUISINE IN COLUMBUS CHAPTER 6: COOKING UP MULTICULTURALISM CHAPTER 7: FOOD, FEAR, AND DREAMS Conclusion Notes References index
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