undefinedThis book is a multidisciplinary masterpiece and the intensely researched examination that the foodways and foodscapes of Singapore deserves. Comprehensive in its examination of changing food practices, this volume powerfully connects consumption, production, built environments, home kitchens, hawker centres, and the sensory experience of food. It is a must read for anyone interested in how a multidisciplinary analysis can enliven the study of food in diverse cities.undefined
Daniel Bender
Canada Research Chair in Global Culture and Director
Culinaria Research Centre
University of Toronto
undefinedIn the many reflections for SG50, nothing comes closer to Singapores identity than the city-states diversified, multi-ethnic and delectable foods. The 10 chapters in this book are a much welcomed multidisciplinary academic intervention of the quintessential Singaporean passion of eating and snacking. This book savours all its foodscapes, foodways and cuisines through its street foods, hawker centres, kopitiams and restaurants. Singapores food obsession best undergirds Joseph Nyes soft power, an expression of Eurasian cultural fusion, Asian gastronomical delights and cosmopolitan consumption which variously defines Singapores national identity, its innovative expressions, its tourist beaconing, its recollection of sensory heritage, its transcultural involvement, and its global-local statement. Sample Singapores mouth-watering creativity through its social, cultural, political, historical, and economic taste buds. This is definitely a digestible book worth consuming.undefined
Victor R Savage
National University of Singapore
undefinedJourney through kampungs and kopitiams and find out why food is so important in Singapore culture! An essential read for anyone seeking to understand Singapore food!undefined
Leslie Tay
Author, blogger and self-proclaimed gastro-geek
http://ieatishootipost.sg
undefinedFood, Foodways and Foodscapes is an extraordinary and a rare book that is simultaneously richly descriptive, deeply evocative, and sharply analytical. It provides a welcome and much needed shift in the locus of discussion from the over-written spaces of restaurants and TVs in North Atlantic nations, to the streets, the home, and the web, in a city-state in southeast Asia, which is precisely what makes it theoretically fecund.undefined
Krishnendu Ray
New York University undefined
President, Association for the Study of Food undefined Society
undefinedThis is one of the most accessible and comprehensive book to chart Singapores food history … It is an excellent starting point for anyone keen to understand the ways in which Singaporeans think about and enjoy, food.undefined
The Sunday Times, Singapore
This fascinating and insightful volume introduces readers to food as a window to the social and cultural history and geography of Singapore. It demonstrates how the food we consume, the ways in which we acquire and prepare it, the company we keep as we cook and eat, and our preferences and practices are all revealing of a larger economic, social, cultural and political world, both historically and in contemporary times. Readers will be captivated by chapters that deal with the intersections of food and ethnicity, gender and class, food hybridity, innovations and creativity, heritage and change, globalization and localization, and more. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Singapore culture and society.
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