Asian Food-The Global & the Local

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka/Boudewijn C.A. Walraven
ISBN: 978-0-7007-1333-2
Curzon Press
190 pag. hardcover 16 x 24 cm

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.