Katarzyna J Cwiertka: 2 books
Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War
Food in Twentieth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
When you consider the size of Korea’s population and the breadth of its territory, it’s easy to see that this small region has played a disproportionately large role in twentieth-century history. The peninsula has experienced colonial submission at the hands of Japan, occupation by the United...
Asian Food
The Global and the Local
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
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.