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An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture

Bruce Kraig

Colleen Taylor Sen

Fuad Ahmad

Chitradeepa Anatharam

Paula Arvela

Rosemary Barron

Manya Brachear

Cynthia Clampitt

Charlotte De Backer

Monica Eng

Clothilde Faon

Rachel Finn

Ove Foss

Olvia Fraga

Shahrzad Ghorashian

David Hammond

Anissa Helou

Richard Hosking

Sharon Hudgins

Phil Iddison

Katrine Klinken

Robert Launay

Whitney Lingle

Mirtn Mac Con Iomaire

Ian Martin

Laura Mason

Marcela Mazzei

Adrian Miller

Katerina Nussdorfer

Sarahlynn Pablo

Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra

Jorge Prez

Birgit Ricquier

Nanna Rgnvaldardttir

Helen Saberi

Heba Saleh

Mara Jos Sevilla

Mike Sula

Richard Tan

Aylin ney Tan

Viktorija Todorovska

Karin Vaneker

Paul van Reyk

Susan Weingarten

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Street food around the world : an encyclopedia of food and culture / Bruce Kraig and Colleen Taylor Sen, Editors.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-59884-954-7 (hardcopy : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-59884-955-4 (ebook) 1. Street foodEncyclopedias. 2. Food habitsEncyclopedias. I. Kraig, Bruce.

GT2850.S76 2013

394.1'2003dc23 2013008246

ISBN: 978-1-59884-954-7
EISBN: 978-1-59884-955-4

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Street food is one of the most important sectors of the world food economy. An estimated 2.6 billion people eat street food in some form every day, and for many, street food is their main source of nutrition. Once associated mainly with developing countries, street food is making inroads into the developed world, especially in North America, with the advent of food trucks in major cities. Not to be outdone, top chefs have opened restaurants specializing in street food, and such items as hot dogs, bhelpuri, and tacos have been reincarnated as gourmet items on the menus of upscale restaurants. Television programs, even entire series, are devoted to exploring the culinary delights of the street. Street food is one of the centerpieces of culinary tourism for people in pursuit of unique and memorable eating and drinking experiences.

This encyclopedia is the first book of its scope devoted to this important, endlessly fascinating culinary realm. Its purpose is to provide an overview of the worlds street food by country or region. It covers not only such street-food superstars as India, China, Thailand, and Mexico (which admittedly deserve volumes of their own) but also countries where street food plays a less important role, such as those in Northern Europe. Our reasoning was that travelers to these countries might also be in search of a street-food experience, which may be somewhat harder to find.