Reviews for Gastropolis: Food and New York City

The average rating for Gastropolis: Food and New York City based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-11-25 00:00:00 Michael Powell Is it wrong to give yourself five stars?

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-04 00:00:00 Nye Lee This book is a collection of essays from a variety of writers including historians, collectors, and social scientists. Each essay is focused on food traditions, histories, and voices in New York City but each approaches the topic in a different way. I enjoyed the chapter on Native American foodways which delved into the study of environmental history to help tell the food traditions of the pre-contact Lanape. I also found the chapter on Chinese-American restaurants interesting as it was written by a collector who analyzed his collection of menus which covered over 100 years of restaurants. The book is a collection of stories of how we understand our history, culture, and selves through food. (Disclosure: I read this book for an MA course titled "Immigrant Foodways of NYC".)