Eating More Asian America

Robert Ji-Song Ku (Editor) Robert Ji-Song Ku is Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University and the Managing Editor of Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. He is the author of Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA.Martin F. Manalansan (Editor) Martin F. Manalansan IV is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, New York University, New School University, and the University of the Philippines. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke UP:2003). His forthcoming book is entitled "Queer Dwellings: Mess, Mesh, Measure." He is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies.Anita Mannur (Editor) Anita Mannur is Director of the Asia, Pacific, and Diaspora Studies Program and Professor of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies at American University. She is the author of Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures and Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Cultures. She is the 2019 recipient of the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.

This eagerly anticipated second volume is not just more scholarship about Asian American food but a continued and reflective conversation about the porous boundaries of the terms, ideas and materials that are Asian American food. It goes beyond transnational in its scope, centering the flow of practices and ideas rather than fixed ideas of food as regional culture. The authors engage with change and continuity in the dozen years since the first volume to explore (among many topics) the multiple Asian identities of boba, how Chinese duck preparation required new laws in the US and the historical actors submerged in the kinship of Filipino bebingka and Goan bebinca. (Megan J. Elias, author of Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture) Another spectacular collection of pungent critique, delivered with great style! (Krishnendu Ray, author of The Ethnic Restaurateur)