Publications: Anthropology of Food
 | On the Menu: Collectors, Collections, & Archives. Invited speaker, Friends of BC Archives, Victoria, BC, October 15, 2023. |
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Cantonese barbecue meat was almost banned in Canada if not for ‘the good fight’: Vancouver Island professor, interview with Stephen Quinn, CBC’s The Early Edition, November 18, 2022.
 | Made in Canada: ‘Chinese’ Culinary Creations. Invited speaker, Linking the Stories: A Warmland Heritage Workshop, Duncan, BC, October 18, 2019. The event was co-hosted by the Cowichan Valley Museum & Archives and Economic Development Cowichan (CVRD), in cooperation with Heritage BC, Cowichan Tribes and the BC Museums Association. Click here for a pdf-file. |
East meets West in Fall River, Massachusetts. An item on the chow mein sandwich, in honour of National Sandwich Day, for
In America’s sandwiches, the story of a nation. The Conversation, November 2, 2017; republished in Salon, November 11, 2017, and EdgeMediaNetwork, January 27, 2019. Also, found in The History of Five Uniquely American Sandwiches, as the Chow Mein Sandwich, Smithsonian Magazine, November 3, 2017, in American sandwiches tell the story of immigration, class and capitalism, Scroll.in, July 14, 2020, and in Sandwiching in the past, Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, July 18, 2021.
On the Menu: More than Food. The inaugural Global Dialogues talk, sponsored by the Global Studies Program, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, on January 18, 2017. Photo courtesy of VIU Communications and Public Engagement.
WK Gardens: What’s on the Menu? Invited presenter at the international conference on Chinese Food and Culture in Local and Global Perspective, October 29, 2016, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Notes from the Chow Mein Sandwich Chick. In Eating Stories: A Chinese Canadian and Aboriginal Potluck, edited by Brandy Lien Worrall, pp.243-6. Vancouver, BC: Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC. 288 pages; ISBN: 978-0-9783420-2-9; November 2007.
Mostly Mississippi: Chinese Cuisine Made in America. In Mostly Mississippi: Chinese Restaurants of the South, by Indigo Som, pp.13-15. Exhibition Catalog. San Francisco, CA: Chinese Historical Society of America. 16 pages; ISBN: 1885864264; February 2005. Click here for pdf-file; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Chinese Cuisine Meets the American Palate: The Chow Mein Sandwich. In Chinese Cuisine American Palate: An Anthology, edited by Jacqueline M. Newman and Roberta Halporn, pp.130-139. Brooklyn, NY: Center for Thanatology Research & Eduction, Inc. ISBN: 0-930194-993; 2004.
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Achieving Balance: Tonic Soups. Flavor & Fortune 6(3):9-10, 26, 28. [September 1999] Click here for pdf-file; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Chinese Restaurants as Cultural Lessons. Flavor & Fortune 4(2):13, 22. [June 1997] Click here for pdf-file; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
The Chow Mein Sandwich: American as Apple Pie. Radcliffe Culinary Times III(2):4-5. [Autumn 1993] Click here for pdf-file; Adobe Acrobat Reader® is needed to read and open the file.
Created 2002-09-07; last updated 2023-12-09