Category Archives: Week 9: Americanization, Multiculturalism, and the Food Cart
Food in America
In the Gabaccia’s chapter on “Food Fights and American Values”, she discusses what makes food “American” and explores the various ways in which native-born Americans have sought to control the spread of ethnic food as a result of the long-time … Continue reading
What to do About Willets Point (Shahdi)
Both Santos and Bilefsky gave conflicting opinions about what to do with Willets Point and honestly, it’s hard to come up with a straightforward answer. On one hand, it is the government’s job to increase the overall quality of the … Continue reading
What American Food is (Shahdi)
What Gabbacia defines as American food is very different to my definition of American food. Granted, we are both defining American food in different time periods and it’s safe to say that American food has changed in this time. Gabbacia … Continue reading
Week 9 Reading Response
The degree of government interference with the societal structure of ethnic enclaves continues to be a difficult subject of matter to discuss. You can’t please everyone but you should definitely work to make every citizen happy if not content with … Continue reading
Willets Point
During high school summers, I would often take the 7 train to Mets-Willets Point. I would get off the train and walk across the board walk to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where I attended tennis camp. It … Continue reading
Response to Willet’s Point
It is understandable that the Bloomberg administration wished to renew Willet’s point. After all, it was dirty and filled with crime. However, to uproot the current business owners only to replace them with new ones only improves the land itself … Continue reading
The American Cuisine
Defining the American cuisine has eluded people for decades, and to this day it is very difficult to provide an overarching and comprehensive description of the American cuisine. This is in large part because of a myriad of confounding factors, … Continue reading
The Workplace Enclave:Week 9
Ethnic enclaves in which new immigrants are offered work can be as dangerous as they are helpful. One the one hand, immigrants have easy accessibility to jobs as soon as they arrive in the country. There’s a solid opportunity for … Continue reading
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Food Fight
To sufficiently categorize a food as “American”, one must not only examine the ingredients of the dish, but its place in contemporary culture. Gabaccia notes the increasing acceptance of foreign foods as they were integrated into traditional American diets and … Continue reading
Food
In today’s world, it is very likely that people have eaten food that is not American or from their native country. Due to the abundance of various ethnic food restaurants and recipes available online and on television, it is virtually … Continue reading
