HISTORY 15F Lecture 5: Week 5b-6a: When Americans first met Chinese food: Food as cultural encounter
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Week 5b-6a: when americans first met chinese food: food as cultural encounter: understanding america"s first encounter with chinese food: general comments, an important idea: food is a site of cross cultural encounters. This is because food is a marker of identity, an integral part of the culture and the economy of a nation or community. In cross-cultural encounters, food is a window through which people understand others; their reaction to others" food also revealed much about themselves: americans first encountered chinses food in china. Chines food was an important part of their initial perception of china: americans did not fall in love with chinese food. In the realm of food, it was an exchange of foods not cooking or processing methods. Maize; nixtamalization: when and where america first met chinesee food, the encounter with chinese food is also the encounter with china and its people. When: the empress of china (1784); samuel shaw.
