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Pilcher, Jeffrey M., 1965-
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Cooking, Mexican -- History.
Cooking, Mexican -- Social aspects -- History.
Food habits -- Mexico -- History.
Gastronomy -- Mexico -- History.
Mexican Americans -- Food -- History.
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Pilcher, Jeffrey M., 1965-
Cooking, Mexican -- History.
Cooking, Mexican -- Social aspects -- History.
Food habits -- Mexico -- History.
Gastronomy -- Mexico -- History.
Mexican Americans -- Food -- History.
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Planet Taco : a global history of Mexican food / Jeffrey M. Pilcher.
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Pilcher, Jeffrey M., 1965-
Oxford University Press, 2017.
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641
.5972
P637p
Subjects
Cooking, Mexican -- History.
Cooking, Mexican -- Social aspects -- History.
Food habits -- Mexico -- History.
Gastronomy -- Mexico -- History.
Mexican Americans -- Food -- History.
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9780190655778 (pbk.)
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : a tale of two tacos -- Part I. Proto-tacos. Maize and the making of Mexico ; Burritos in the borderlands -- Part II. National tacos. From the pastry war to Parisian mole ; The rise and fall of the chili queens ; Inventing the Mexican American taco -- Part III. Global Tacos. The first wave of global Mexican ; The blue corn bonanza -- Conclusion : the battle of the taco trucks
Summary:
"In Planet Taco, Jeffrey Pilcher traces the historical origins and evolution of Mexico's national cuisine, explores its incarnation as a Mexican American fast-food, shows how surfers became global pioneers of Mexican food, and how Corona beer conquered the world. Pilcher is particularly enlightening on what the history of Mexican food reveals about the uneasy relationship between globalization and authenticity. The burritos and taco shells that many people think of as Mexican were actually created in the United States. But Pilcher argues that the contemporary struggle between globalization and national sovereignty to determine the authenticity of Mexican food goes back hundreds of years. During the nineteenth century, Mexicans searching for a national cuisine were torn between nostalgic "Creole" Hispanic dishes of the past and French haute cuisine, the global food of the day. Indigenous foods were scorned as unfit for civilized tables. Only when Mexican American dishes were appropriated by the fast food industry and carried around the world did Mexican elites rediscover the foods of the ancient Maya and Aztecs and embrace the indigenous roots of their national cuisine."--From publisher.
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