Ethnic Foodscapes: Foreign Cuisines in the United States.
Existing scholarship on consumption has focused on how purchasing patterns vary by age, race, and socioeconomic status. This article opens a new perspective by asking how consumption is distributed geographically and how these patterns are associated with neighborhood characteristics. This paper dep...
| Published in: | Food, Culture & Society Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 365 - 394 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=124301067&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 124301067 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 15528014 1GVA jtl: Food, Culture & Society issn: 15528014 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2017 vid: 20 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 124301067 10.1080/15528014.2017.1337390 ppf: 365 ppct: 29 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 2MB tig: atl: Ethnic Foodscapes: Foreign Cuisines in the United States. aug: au: Park, Kendall affil: Princeton University su: United States Social classes Emigration & immigration Ethnic foods Taste Ethnic restaurants Restaurants sug: subj: Social classes Emigration & immigration United States Full-Service Restaurants All other building equipment contractors Commercial and Institutional Building Construction Specialty Canning Ethnic foods Taste Ethnic restaurants Restaurants keyword: ethnic food food practices migration social class taste ethnic food food practices migration social class taste ab: Existing scholarship on consumption has focused on how purchasing patterns vary by age, race, and socioeconomic status. This article opens a new perspective by asking how consumption is distributed geographically and how these patterns are associated with neighborhood characteristics. This paper departs from previous studies of consumption by concentrating on not just what is consumed but where. Merging data from Google Places with demographic data from the American Consumer Survey produced a data-set with occupations, ethnic composition, and incomes of neighborhood residents as well as the number and type of ethnic restaurants. Census tracts with high percentages of professionals and highly educated residents have a greater diversity of restaurant genres, whereas wealthier census tracts have less diversity. The share of residents in knowledge-intensive jobs impacts the number of ethnic cuisines in a census tract. So does the immigrant population, but this association takes on different forms for three types of cuisines: destination, popular, and enclave. Traditionally sophisticated destination cuisines, like French and Japanese, thrive in elite neighborhoods independent of ethnic composition and income. Mexican and Chinese restaurants are popular in all sorts of neighborhoods, almost independent of ethnic composition, while more exotic cuisines, like Vietnamese and Cuban, remain largely confined to immigrant enclaves. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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