Cecilia Leong Salobir: 2 books
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
A Taste of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues...
Urban Food Culture
Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
This book explores the food history of twentieth-century Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore within an Asian Pacific network of flux and flows. It engages with a range of historical perspectives on each city’s food and culinary histories, including colonial culinary legacies, restaurants, cafes, street...