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Eating her curries and kway :

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a cultural history of food in Singapore /

Nicole Tarulevicz.

xi, 204 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audacious fusion : thinking about Singaporean cuisine -- A brief history of Singapore -- Making the past the present : food in a multiracial port city -- Public spaces, public bodies -- The kitchen : invariably offstage -- Jam tarts, spotted dicks, and curry -- The pizza of love -- Picked in their fresh young prime -- Food sluts and the marketing of Singaporean cuisine -- More than just food.

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"While eating is a universal experience, for Singaporeans it carries strong everyday and national connotations. The popular Singaporean-English phrase "Die die must try" is not so much hyperbole as it is a reflection of the lengths that Singaporeans will go to find great dishes. In Eating the Nation, Tarulevicz argues that in a society that has undergone substational change in a relatively short amount of time, food serves Singaporeans as a poignant connection to the ever-changing past. Eating, the how and the what, has provided a unifying experience for a diverse society; a metaphor for multiracialism and recognizable national symbols for a fledgling state. Using food as a category of analysis, and analyzing a variety of sources that range from cookbooks to architectural and city plans, Tarulevicz gives the reader a thematic history of this unusual country, which was colonized by the British and run as a port within Malaya, but which is without a substantial pre-colonial history. In doing so, Tarulevicz moves away from the predominately political and economic focus of other historians of Singapore, and provides an important alternative reading of Singaporean society"--

Food habits-- Singapore.

Food preferences-- Singapore.

Food habits.

Food preferences.

HISTORY / Asia / General.

Manners and customs.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.

Singapore, Social life and customs.

Singapore.

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