Book Review: Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore

• Main Author: Van , Penny
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2015
• Subjects: P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/40874/1/Art5-Edit-93-97.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/40874/; http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Art5-Edit-93-97.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

Nicole Tarulevicz opens her book about food in Singapore with a key question: How does food become its own form of rule-making? She ends the book with the observation that rules are central to life in Singapore. Between these two points, she brings to bear a wide range of evidence concerning food in this unique city state where the relation between food and nation is especially strong. Singapore is a society in which rules and regulations matter, a truly prescriptive society that monitors cultural heritage, the family and the body.