{"id":17218,"date":"2015-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2015\/11\/16\/singapore-story-through-food\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T23:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:56:56","slug":"singapore-story-through-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2015\/11\/16\/singapore-story-through-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore story through food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">The<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0recently <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">launched book\u00a0Food, Foodways <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">a<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">nd Foodscapes\u00a0is\u00a0an anthropology of essays by\u00a0nine academics<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">,<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"> namely Prof\u00a0Lily Kong (<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">former faculty,<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0Geography Dept.), Prof\u00a0Vineeta Sinha (Sociology Dept.), Prof\u00a0Chua Beng Huat \u00a0(Sociology Dept.), Lai Ah Eng, A\/P\u00a0Harvey Neo (Geography Dept.), Jean Duruz, A\/P\u00a0Kevin Low (Sociology Dept.), Adeline Tay and Amy Tan. It\u00a0explores\u00a0the impact of\u00a0cuisine on global consciousness as well as the Singaporean psyche.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&#8216;Singapore story through food&#8217; review<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">s Food, Foodways and Foodscapes, <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">highlighting the questions\u00a0answered<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">as well as its\u00a0merits and demerits. Cheong Suk-Wai<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0writes <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">that this\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">book is an excellent starting point for anyone keen to understand the ways in which Singaporeans think about\u00a0and enjoy\u00a0food.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Click here for the article:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><a id=\"LPlnk726655\" href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/singapore-story-through-food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/singapore-story-through-food<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0recently launched book\u00a0Food, Foodways and Foodscapes\u00a0is\u00a0an anthropology of essays by\u00a0nine academics, namely Prof\u00a0Lily Kong (former faculty,\u00a0Geography Dept.), Prof\u00a0Vineeta Sinha (Sociology Dept.), Prof\u00a0Chua Beng Huat \u00a0(Sociology Dept.), Lai Ah Eng, A\/P\u00a0Harvey Neo (Geography Dept.), Jean Duruz, A\/P\u00a0Kevin Low (Sociology Dept.), Adeline Tay and Amy Tan. It\u00a0explores\u00a0the impact of\u00a0cuisine on global consciousness as well as the Singaporean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26170,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions\/26170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}