Nostalgia of food/饮食的怀旧

Nostalgia for Food explores the unique meanings that Chinese people attach to their country's many distinctive regional cuisines and the changing role that Western food plays in urban life. Using Shanghai, a food lover's paradise, as a rich intersection of urban, regional, and national identities, the author explores how tastes record change and continuity at key moments in Shanghai's history. From the earliest records of Shanghai's specialty foods to the dizzying variety of local cuisines and restaurants in today's metropolis, this book reveals how Shanghai residents construct their relationship with the city itself, the rest of China, and the wider world. This new history of Shanghai offers an original framework for studying food culture, an inherent way for Chinese people to connect with the past, present, and future.

《饮食的怀旧》探讨了中国人对其国家众多独特的地方美食所赋予的独特意义，以及西餐在城市生活中所扮演的不断变化的角色。作者将上海这一美食爱好者的天堂，作为城市、地区和民族身份的丰富交汇点，探讨了在上海历史的关键时刻，口味是如何记录变化和延续的。从最早关于上海特色食品的记载，到如今大都市中令人眼花缭乱的各种地方美食和餐馆，本书揭示了上海居民如何构建他们与这座城市本身、中国其他地区以及更广阔世界的关系。这部全新的上海史为研究饮食文化提供了一个独创的框架，饮食文化是中国人与过去、现在和未来联系的固有方式。