Asian Food - The Global and the Local (Hardcover)

By documenting, analyzing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples since 1900, this volume tries aims to pinpoint the consequences of the tension between homogenization and cultural heterogenization, which is so characteristic for modern global interaction. By focussing on Asian foodways, the contributors demonstrate how the local and the global forces negotiate new hybrid lifestyles, how new commodities become embedded in new cultures and how new identities are embraced through the acceptance and rejection of new forms of consumption.