ABSTRACT
Exotic Appetites is a far-reaching exploration of what Lisa Heldke calls food adventuring: the passion, fashion and pursuit of experimentation with ethnic foods. The aim of Heldke's critique is to expose and explore the colonialist attitudes embedded in our everyday relationship and approach to foreign foods. Exotic Appetites brings to the table the critical literatures in postcolonialism, critical race theory, and feminism in a provocative and lively discussion of eating and ethnic cuisine. Chapters look closely at the meanings and implications involved in the quest for unusual restaurants and exotic dishes, related restaurant reviews and dining guides, and ethnic cookbooks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |59 pages
Let's Eat Chinese
chapter |14 pages
The Quest for Novelty
chapter |22 pages
The Pursuit of Authenticity
chapter |15 pages
The Other as Resource
part |40 pages
How I Ate Civet Cat and Lived to Tell the Tale
chapter |20 pages
And Reader, We Ate It
chapter |12 pages
What Do You Mean We Can't Film the Market Sequence Here?
part |49 pages
Let's Cook Thai
chapter |14 pages
Can the Doughboy Be an Insider?
chapter |11 pages
How to Stuff a Wild Zucchini
chapter |19 pages
Aided by My Faithful Old Family Cook
part |67 pages
Toward Anticolonialist Eating