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Author Matejowsky, Ty, author

Title Fast food globalization in the provincial Philippines / Ty Matejowsky
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 147 pages)
Contents Fast food as global metaphor : sociocultural perspectives on fast food globalization 1970s-2010s -- Of burgers and bees : corporate fast food in the Philippines, 1980s-2010s -- A tale of two local fast food scenes : corporate fast food in Dagupan City, Pangasinan and San Fernando City, La Union 1980s-2010s -- The young and the hungry : fast food and children 2000s-2010s -- Jollibesity! : intersections of fast food, health, nutrition, and obesity 2000s-2010s
Summary Ty Matejowsky examines the rise and popularity of corporate fast food in the provincial Philippines from an anthropological perspective. Based on more than 20 years of ethnographic fieldwork, he shows how this global restaurant format has been indigenized and reimagined by native entrepreneurs and everyday diners into something distinctly Filipino
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2018)
Subject Fast food restaurants -- Social aspects -- Philippines
Globalization -- Philippines
Diet in disease -- Philippines
COOKING -- General.
Diet in disease
Fast food restaurants -- Social aspects
Globalization
Social conditions
SUBJECT Philippines -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97008239
Subject Philippines
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017047381
ISBN 9780739139905
0739139908