- “among younger, affluent Asians, the growing popularity of Italian and Spanish cuisine,… is challenging the dominance of rice in Asian diets.”
- “As Asia’s rice consumption rapidly declines, will the fundamental nature of Asian cuisines change?”
- “What role is rice going to play in the New Asia?”
- “Historically, many multiethnic and religiously diverse Asian countries have used food to consolidate a sense of uniqueness and unity.”
- "… analyzing national tourist promotion materials… paying particular attention to the role of food”
- “What I found is that food plays an increasingly important role in how governments want others to imagine their nations.”
- “Watching shows on Food Network and Cooking Channel, or Bravo’s hit-series Top Chef and Master Chef, one can imagine that the world, at least the food world, is becoming smaller and more intimate.”
- “David Thompson, an Australian chef with award-winning Thai restaurants in London and Bangkok, relies on the unpublished cookbooks of former chefs in the Royal Thai court for recipes and techniques in an effort to “revive” Thai cuisine.”
- “Culinary Tourism, Lucy Long and her co-authors discuss how tourism offers opportunities for people to make familiar foods strange, and to turn every day activities like shopping for food in an ethnic market into an act of exploration and discovery”
- “Culinary tours often include visits to local markets, guided tours of farms, as well as cooking lessons with local experts and chefs.”
- “The example of French foie gras illustrates how gastro nationalism rests on claims of cultural tradition and national distinction.”
- “producers make national claims of tradition based on history and authenticity to defend their industry. “For France, gastro nationalism is central to bolstering national self-identification.””
- “Clearly, the rising popularity of culinary tourism has much to do with its ability to provide the tourist with the simultaneous experiences of being a global cosmopolitan and an authentic local.”
- “Rice is being transformed from a mundane everyday staple to a food that conveys national distinction.”
- “As specialty foods and products become synonymous with tradition, heritage, and belonging, they have also become integral to states’ construction of national identity through tourism.”
- “Thailand’s national tourist website lists a cooking class in a “reputable” local cooking school featuring local chef instructors; it begins with a tour of a local market to purchase everyday Thai ingredients for the preparation of a typical Thai meal”
- “Thailand’s national tourist website lists a cooking class in a “reputable” local cooking school featuring local chef instructors; it begins with a tour of a local market to purchase everyday Thai ingredients for the preparation of a typical Thai meal.”
- “Such classes not only teach students individual recipes and cooking techniques, and also instruct them how to eat them: family-style, with rice.”
- “The very fact that cuisines are supposed to represent the nation means that these foods must appeal or have significant cultural meaning to broader publics, and be popular among locals, under everyday conditions.”
- “… rice-based dishes and cuisines represent the local while remaining central to a country’s identity.”