Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore
Nicole Tarulevicz opens her book about food in Singapore with a key question: How does food become its own form of rule-making? She ends the book with the observation that rules are central to life in Singapore. Between these two points, she brings to bear a wide range of evidence concerning foo...
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| Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press)
2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/40874/ http://eprints.usm.my/40874/1/Art5-Edit-93-97.pdf |
| Summary: | Nicole Tarulevicz opens her book about food in Singapore with a key
question: How does food become its own form of rule-making? She ends
the book with the observation that rules are central to life in Singapore.
Between these two points, she brings to bear a wide range of evidence
concerning food in this unique city state where the relation between food
and nation is especially strong. Singapore is a society in which rules and
regulations matter, a truly prescriptive society that monitors cultural
heritage, the family and the body. |
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