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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Main Author: Van , Penny
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2015
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description 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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spelling usm-408742018-07-02T09:17:26Z http://eprints.usm.my/40874/ Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore Van , Penny P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) 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. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40874/1/Art5-Edit-93-97.pdf Van , Penny (2015) Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 11 (2). pp. 93-97. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Art5-Edit-93-97.pdf
spellingShingle P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
Van , Penny
Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore
title Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore
title_full Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore
title_fullStr Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore
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title_short Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore
title_sort book review: eating her curries and kway: a cultural history of food in singapore
topic P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
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