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Food Culture In Colonial Asia: A Taste Of Empire, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir
Food Culture In Colonial Asia: A Taste Of Empire, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues are used to investigate the culinary practices in the colonial household, as well as in clubs, hill stations, hotels and restaurants. Challenging accepted ideas about colonial cuisine, the book argues that a distinctive cuisine emerged as a result of negotiation and collaboration between the expatriate British and local people, and included dishes such as curries, mulligatawny, kedgeree, country …
Food Stories: Culinary Links Of An Island State And A Continent, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir
Food Stories: Culinary Links Of An Island State And A Continent, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Foodways has increasingly become an important lens for the analysis of historical, social and cultural studies. Anthropologists and historians in particular view food consumption as ways of understanding cultural adaptation and social grouping. The food practices of a social grouping reveal rich dimensions of people's lives, indicating their sense of identity and their place within the wider community. As well, food is one of the most visible aspects of a community's cultural tradition. It is through food too that a social grouping "borrows" food practices and appropriate food items from other cultures to make them its own. This chapter intends …