에스닉 음식(Ethnic food)에서 에스닉 아메리칸 음식(Ethnic American food)으로 — 1850년대에서 1940년대 사이 이민자와 미국의 음식 문화 —

Abstract

This article examines the ways in which the ethnic food and foodways that Italian, Chinese, and Mexican immigrants brought to the U. S. contributed to the diversity of American food between 1850s and 1940s. It refers to the works of American historians and Asian American studies scholars, which explore the relationship between immigration and American foodways. Food was the epitome of ethnic identity for these three immigrant groups as well as the means to bond members in ethnic communities. Simultaneously, ethnic food allowed these immigrants and Americans to communicate one another. At first, Americans rejected the ethnic food of Italian, Chinese, and Mexican immigrants. Then they came to embrace and even appropriate it. The encounter of the food of these three ethnic groups with Americans of various backgrounds transformed it into ethnic American food.