Culinary Nostalgia – Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai
Culinary NostalgiaRegional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai\nAuthor(s): Mark Swislocki\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804760126, 978-0804760126\nSynopsis\nCulinary Nostalgia is the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country's many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark Swislocki focuses on Shanghaia food lover's paradiseas a rich intersection of urban, regional, and national identities, and examines how tastes registered change and continuity at pivotal moments throughout the city's history. From the earliest accounts of Shanghai's specialty foodstuffs to the dazzling variety of regional cuisines and restaurants in the metropolis of today, this book uncovers how city residents have constructed their relationship to the city itself, to other parts.
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