The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City by Robert Lemon - PDF free download eBook
Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to...
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- Exact title of the book
- The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City
- Book author
- Robert Lemon
- Book edition
- Hardcover
- Number of pages
- 240 pages
- Published
- May 16th 2019 by University of Illinois Press
- File size (in PDF)
- 960 kB

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Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence-sometimes desired, sometimes resented-that turns a public street corner into a bustling business. Drawing on interviews with taco truck workers and his own skills as a geographer, Robert Lemon illuminates new truths about foodways, community, and the unexpected places where ethnicity, class, and culture meet.
Lemon focuses on the Bay Area, Sacramento, and Columbus, Ohio, to show how the arrival of taco trucks challenge preconceived ideas of urban planning even as cities use them to reinvent whole neighborhoods. As Lemon charts the relationships between food practices and city spaces, he uncovers the many ways residents and politicians alike contest, celebrate, and influence not only where your favorite truck parks, but what's on the menu.