Two recently published books examine the concept of “Mexican food” in the U.S. and Mexico. Gustavo Arellano’s Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (2012) provides a readable journalistic examination of Mexican food in the U.S., and Jeffrey Pilcher’s Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (2012) offers an academic study of Mexican food presentations in a global setting by an established scholar. Each offers an entry for the field of Mexican food studies. This reading examines correlations of power in the colonial process and development of contemporary cuisine, drawing the conclusion that the concept of “Mexican food” is multifaceted, and at certain times and places, debatable
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In 2010, traditional Mexican cuisine was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the...
The consumption of tacos reveals the social ambivalence that characterizes contemporary food practic...
Translocality as originally used by Arjun Appadurai was an evocative concept that appealed immediate...
In this thesis, the staple food of Mesoamerica features in a pair of comparison studies each contain...
Many Americans are familiar with Mexican food, or what they understand to be Mexican food. Much of ...
This introductory article argues for making food central to a praxis of cultural studies in the tran...
Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide ar...
This article explored the role of food in the rise of political modernity in the Atlantic world, tow...
Cuisine refers to the ethnically idiosyncratic food choices and the manner and methods in which thes...
This dissertation demonstrates how Indigenous cuisines hold significant potential for Biocultural Di...
Therefore, my aim is to prove that the uniqueness of Mexican cuisine derives from the fact that it h...
In 1994, the Mexican government started implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement in the ...
This research explores contemporary Latinx literature to examine the way discourse about food is pre...
Tortillas and products made from maize provided subsistence to early Mesoamerican civilizations, and...
Regional and ethnic cuisines result from generations of cultural mixing and adaptation. In the case ...
In 2010, traditional Mexican cuisine was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the...
The consumption of tacos reveals the social ambivalence that characterizes contemporary food practic...
Translocality as originally used by Arjun Appadurai was an evocative concept that appealed immediate...
In this thesis, the staple food of Mesoamerica features in a pair of comparison studies each contain...
Many Americans are familiar with Mexican food, or what they understand to be Mexican food. Much of ...
This introductory article argues for making food central to a praxis of cultural studies in the tran...
Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide ar...
This article explored the role of food in the rise of political modernity in the Atlantic world, tow...
Cuisine refers to the ethnically idiosyncratic food choices and the manner and methods in which thes...
This dissertation demonstrates how Indigenous cuisines hold significant potential for Biocultural Di...
Therefore, my aim is to prove that the uniqueness of Mexican cuisine derives from the fact that it h...
In 1994, the Mexican government started implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement in the ...