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Taste, Toil and Ethnicity: The American Gustatory Imagination 1830-2006

Taste, Toil and Ethnicity: The American Gustatory Imagination 1830-2006. Krishnendu Ray. NYT coverage of ethnic restaurants 1861-2000. 40.00%. Chinese. 35.00%. Chinese. French. 30.00%. Chinese. Percentage of all articles with restaurant in it. Chinese. French. 25.00%. Italian.

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Taste, Toil and Ethnicity: The American Gustatory Imagination 1830-2006

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  1. Taste, Toil and Ethnicity:The American Gustatory Imagination 1830-2006 Krishnendu Ray

  2. NYT coverage of ethnic restaurants 1861-2000 40.00% Chinese 35.00% Chinese French 30.00% Chinese Percentage of all articles with restaurant in it Chinese French 25.00% Italian German French French French Italian 20.00% Chinese Chinese Italian French Italian French Italian Italian American 15.00% American American German 10.00% Chinese Italian Japanese Japanese American Mexican Japanese American German American German 5.00% German American Japanese Mexican Continental Japanese German Japanese Continental Continental Mexican Continental Continental German Continental Mexican Mexican 0.00% Mexican Japanese Continental Mexican 1861-1880 1881-1900 1901-1920 1921-1940 1941-1960 1961-1980 1981-2000 Years

  3. Ethnicity of Zagat-rated New York City restaurants 1986-2009as a percentage of ethnically identifiable restaurants (selected years – column percentages)

  4. Demographic Detail of Restaurant Worker in NYC: 2000 Census Long Form

  5. Acknowledgments: • Sierra Burnett for helping me through various stages, especially in downloading the historical census data from IPUMS on occupations and birthplace • Christy Spackman for help in graphing some of the data

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