Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Leaving Home: One Girl's Story Part One: Let's Eat Chinese 1. The Quest for Novelty 2. The Pursuit of Authenticity 3. The Other as Resource Part Two: How I Ate Civet Cat and Lived to Tell the Tale 4. And Reader, We Ate It 5. What Do You Mean We Can't Film the Market Sequence Here? Part Three: Let's Cook Thai 6. Can the Dough Boy Be an Insider? 7. How to Stuff a Wild Zucchini 8. Aided by My Faithful Old Family Cook Part Four: Toward Anticolonialist Eating 9. Okay, Let's Stay Home 10. The Skeptical Palate 11. Eating in Context Epilogue: Returning to the Garden Notes Bibliography

About the Author

Lisa Heldke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she also teaches in the Women's Studies department.