Description: This overview encapsulates the diverse peoples and geographies that have produced such popular cuisines.
Review Quotes:
"Van Esterik's contribution demonstrates her in-depth knowledge of the culture and foodways of much of Southeast Asia. Her willingness to complicate the matters of colonialism and national or ethnic identity--as well as the impact of globalization on worldwide foodscapes--has raised the bar, I believe, on the academic value that be found in the books in Greenwood's Food Culture around the World Series." --Southeast Review of Asian Studies
"There are good things here, including Van Esterik's discussion of kitchens as 'ritually important places in traditional Southeast Asian houses' . . . which reminds us that who is cooking and where can be as important as what is on the stove." --Gastronomica