A culinary hub in the global city: diasporic Asian foodscapes across Scarborough, Canada. (1st January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bégin, Camille; Sharma, Jayeeta
• Is Part Of: Food, culture, & society. Volume 21:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 55
• Page End: 74
• Publication Date: 2018-01-01
• Subjects: Culinary hub -- ethnoburb -- global city -- migration -- Scarborough -- Toronto -- Asian -- diasporic -- pedagogy -- foodscapes; Food -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Nutrition policy -- Periodicals; 641
• DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2017.1398471
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-7443

Abstract

Abstract: This article examines the role of late twentieth-century transnational migrants to Canada in transforming Scarborough into a culinary hub with global and Asian resonances—a place where dense affective, sensory, social, cultural, and economic networks of foodways overlap and combine to create place-specific diasporic sensescapes. The primary research questions are: How does such an Asian culinary hub emerge and function in the transnational and diasporic setting of a contemporary global city and how do citizens' negotiations of its mobile foodways constitute the hub, and act as its archive? To locate answers for these questions, the authors engaged with long-term collaborative research among academics, students, and community stakeholders connected to the Culinaria Research Centre of the University of Toronto.