Asian Food: The Global and the Local (ConsumAsian Series)

By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume pinpoints the consequences of the tension between homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation, which is so characteristic for today's global interaction. Cover 1 ASIAN FOOD 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 12 1 Eating Hong Kong's Way Out 27 2 Acceptance of milk products in Southeast Asia: the case of Indonesiaas a traditional non-dairying region 45 3 Food in middle-class Madras households from the 1970s to the 1990s 57 4 Ladies who lunch: young women and the domestic fallacy in Japan 74 5 Wild-gathered foods as countercurrents to dietary globalisation in South Korea 87 6 Bardot soup and Confucians' meat: food and Korean identity in global context 106 7 Family hospitality and ethnic tradition among South Asian womenin the west of Scotland 127 8 Eating the homeland: Japanese expatriates in The Netherlands 144 9 Chinese and Indonesian restaurants and the taste for exotic food in The Netherlands: a global-local trend 164 Warm mushroom sushi? An afterword 178 References 185 List of Contributors 197 Index 199 The Global and the Local By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume tries to pinpoint the consequences of the tension between homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation.