We are what we eat ethnic food and the making of american 289 pages we are what we eat ethnic food and the making of american yearman cheng download pdf download full pdf package this paper a short summary of this paper 37 full pdfs related to this paper read paper. We are what we eat follows the fortunes of dozens of enterprising immigrant cooks and grocers street hawkers and restaurateurs who have cultivated and changed the tastes of native born americans from the seventeenth century to the present it also tells of the mass corporate production of foods like spaghetti bagels corn chips and salsa obliterating their ethnic identities. We are what we eat ethnic food and the making of americans donna r gabaccia cambridge ma harvard university press 1998. Ghulam bombaywala sells bagels in houston demetrios dishes up pizza in connecticut the wangs serve . David gerard hogan we are what we eat ethnic food and the making of americans by donna r gabaccia cambridge harvard university press 1998 278pp 2495