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ix Acknowledgments The familiar food-related adage cautions, “Too many cooks spoil the broth,” which may be true, but not for this book. A great number of “cooks” have had their hands in the completion of this collection. First and foremost, we thank the seventeen contributors for their enthusiasm, diligence, creativity, erudition , and friendship. We thank Eric Zinner, editor in chief of New York University Press, who believed in our project and pushed us to finish it. We also thank production editor Alexia Traganas and assistant editors Ciara McLaughlin and Alicia Nadkarni for their support and guidance throughout the completion of this book. We are grateful for the constructive feedback from the two anonymous readers of our manuscript. Their thoughtful comments and suggestions have improved this book immeasurably. We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the Association for Asian American Studies, as our participation in the 2010 meeting in Austin, Texas, and the 2011 meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, provided the original impetus for the teamwork that culminated in the publication of this book. We thank the AAAS officers, conference organizers, and members for their intellectual support and personal friendships. Finally, we three editors would like to make the following personal acknowledgments. Anita: I wish to thank my colleagues at Miami: Yu-Fang Cho, Nalin Jayasena , Mad Detloff, Luming Mao, and Gaile Pohlhaus for their generous intellectual feedback. My thanks to Jason Palmeri and Lisa Weems for an ever evolving context for critical eating in southwest Ohio, and for their continued support and encouragement, I thank Michael Needham, Julie Minich, Bill Johnson Gonzalez, Allan Isaac, and Cathy Schlund-Vials. Martin: I want to express my gratitude to Lisa Nakamura and Kent Ono, who were especially supportive during my research. Special thanks to Bill Johnson Gonzalez, Allan Isaac, Jose Capino, Rick Bonus, and members of the Filipino American studies “mafia” for their social and scholarly camaraderie, especially during delectable meals, spicy chats, and warm boisterous laughter. Acknowledgments x I dedicate my work to my parents and family for providing unconditional love amid feasts of adobo and sinigang. Robert: To all those who I’ve cooked for this past few years, thank you for enjoying my food. Thank you especially to our apocryphal Momofuku bo ssam gang (Kevin Hatch, Matt Johnson, Julia Walker, and Deanne Westerman). My gratitude goes, too, to my Asian and Asian American studies cohorts at Binghamton University: Immanuel Kim, Sonja Kim, Cynthia Marasigan, Rumiko Sode, Roberta Strippoli, and Lisa Yun. My love goes to Nancy, Eliot, and Oliver. ...

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