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Mexican and Mexican-American cuisine; Spanish colonial cuisine; structures of power; globalization; coloniality; history of tacos; food studies
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Tacos And Coloniality: A Review Essay, Michael Soldatenko
Tacos And Coloniality: A Review Essay, Michael Soldatenko
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Two recently published books examine the concept of “Mexican food” in the U.S. and Mexico. Gustavo Arellano’s Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (2012) provides a readable journalistic examination of Mexican food in the U.S., and Jeffrey Pilcher’s Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (2012) offers an academic study of Mexican food presentations in a global setting by an established scholar. Each offers an entry for the field of Mexican food studies. This reading examines correlations of power in the colonial process and development of contemporary cuisine, drawing the conclusion that the concept of “Mexican food” is …