By exploring the other side of what is prescriptively understood as proper Asian gastronomy, Robert Ji-Song Ku suggests that Asian cultural expressions occurring in places such as Los Angeles, Honolulu, New York City, and even Baton Rouge are no less critical to understanding the meaning of Asian food - and, by extension, Asian people - than culinary expressions that took place in Tokyo, Seoul, and Shanghai centuries ago. In critically considering the impure and hybridized with serious and oft en whimsical intent, Dubious Gastronomy argues that while the notion of cultural authenticity is troubled, troubling, and troublesome, the apocryphal is not necessarily a bad thing: The dubious can be and is oft en quite delicious.

About the Author
Robert Ji-Song Ku is associate professor of Asian American studies at Binghamton University of the State University of New York, USA.


Book Information
ISBN 9780824839215
Author Robert Ji-Song Ku
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
Weight(grams) 500g