TY - BOOK ID - 78492020 TI - Food Across Borders AU - Arbaca, Meredith E AU - Backer, Kellen AU - Carleton, William AU - Mitchell, Don AU - DuPuis, E Melanie AU - Garcia, Matt AU - Mazar, Jessie AU - Vázquez-Medina, José Antonio AU - Massoth, Katherine AU - Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne AU - Mares, Teresa M AU - Murphy, Mary AU - Walsh-Dilley, Marygold AU - Abarca, Meredith E AU - Wise, Michael AU - Wolcott-MacCausland, Naomi AU - Padoongpatt, Tanachai Mark AU - Vásquez-Medina, José Antonio AU - Sexsmith, Kathleen PY - 2017 SN - 0813591988 0813592003 9780813592008 9780813591988 9780813591964 0813591961 9780813591971 081359197X 9780813591995 PB - New Brunswick, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Cooking, American KW - Food habits KW - American cooking KW - Cookery, American KW - Eating KW - Food customs KW - Foodways KW - Human beings KW - Habit KW - Manners and customs KW - Diet KW - Nutrition KW - Oral habits KW - Social aspects. KW - United States KW - Emigration and immigration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78492020 AB - The act of eating defines and redefines borders. What constitutes "American" in our cuisine has always depended on a liberal crossing of borders, from "the line in the sand" that separates Mexico and the United States, to the grassland boundary with Canada, to the imagined divide in our collective minds between "our" food and "their" food. Immigrant workers have introduced new cuisines and ways of cooking that force the nation to question the boundaries between "us" and "them." The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. ER -