ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

Eating Hong Kong's Way Out 1

chapter 2|12 pages

Acceptance of Milk Products in Southeast Asia

The case of Indonesia as a traditional non-dairying regIon

chapter 4|13 pages

Ladies who Lunch

Young women and the domestic fallacy in Japan

chapter 6|21 pages

Bardot Soup and Confucians' Meat

Food and Korean identity in global context

chapter 8|20 pages

Eating the Homeland

Japanese expatriates in The Netherlands

chapter |7 pages

Warm Mushroom Sushi?

An afterword