| | | Document Type | : | BL | | Record Number | : | 102779 | | Doc. No | : | b59976 | | Main Entry | : | Tarulevicz, Nicole. | | Title & Author | : | Eating her curries and kway :a cultural history of food in Singapore /Nicole Tarulevicz. | | Page. NO | : | xi, 204 pages ;24 cm | | ISBN | : | 9780252038099 | | | 0252038096 | | Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references and index. | | Contents | : | 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. | | Abstract | : | "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"-- | | Subject | : | Food habits-- Singapore. | | Subject | : | Food preferences-- Singapore. | | Subject | : | HISTORY / Asia / General. | | Subject | : | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. | | Subject | : | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food. | | Subject | : | Food habits. | | Subject | : | Food preferences. | | Subject | : | Manners and customs. | | Subject | : | Singapore, Social life and customs. | | Subject | : | Singapore. | | Dewey Classification | : | 394.1/2095957 | | LC Classification | : | GT2853.S56T37 2013 | | Parallel Title | : | Eating her curries & kway | | | Cultural history of food in Singapore |
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