{"product_id":"the-israeli-career-of-hummus-colonial-appropriation-authenticity-and-distinction","title":"The Israeli Career of Hummus: Colonial Appropriation, Authenticity, and Distinction","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did an Arab dish become an Israeli culinary passion? Less than a century ago, hummus and other Palestinian staples were often met with disinterest and sometimes outright rejection among Zionist settlers. Yet for modern-day Israelis, hummus has become a dish that is both everyday and iconic, intertwined with cultural perceptions of authenticity, indigeneity, and masculinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Israeli Career of Hummus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etracks how hummus has turned from an \"Arab\" or \"Oriental\" food into a national symbol and culinary cult in Israel. The Israeli Career of Hummus traces how hummus has turned from an \"Arab\" or \"Oriental\" food into a national symbol and culinary cult in Israel. Rather than regard culinary appropriation as a necessary outcome of land colonization, author Dafna Hirsch instead examines how changing gastronomic, economic, and political factors intersected with material and cultural production in a multilayered and socially stratified colonial context. Departing from the thesis of cultural erasure of hummus's Arab or Palestinian provenance, Hirsch shows how the Arab identity of hummus functions as a semiotic resource, which is sometimes suppressed and at other times leveraged to lend authenticity to hummus-and thus to its consumers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShedding new light on the sociohistorical process of culinary appropriation amidst settler colonialism and nation building,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Israeli Career of Hummus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einvites readers to consider the complex trajectory and multiple factors and mediators that transformed a humble staple into an emotionally charged and politically contested culinary icon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51023532785949,"sku":"9780253075314","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780253075314.jpg?v=1773088141","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/the-israeli-career-of-hummus-colonial-appropriation-authenticity-and-distinction","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}