This Week Those Books is chock-full of crucial context — from fiction and non-fiction — to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.
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The Big Story:
As immigration becomes a dangerously loaded word in the United States, a clutch of new cookbooks argues that ‘third culture’ food is as American as apple pie.
In fact, more so.
Our first book, published just days ago, says apple pie is not American at all. Model and TV host Padma Lakshmi writes that it “contains not one single ingredient indigenous to North America!”
Fish sauce, turmeric, gochujang, and chipotles are all now commonly used in recipes designed for average home cooks. This is American food now. But why don’t we know more about the provenance of these ingredients — and about the people who introduced them to this country? And how might we see ourselves, one another, and our culture differently if we did?
This Week’s Books:
A TV host, a food editor and a chef make the case for biracial latke, gyoza with labneh and jerk chow mein.
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