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Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (American Crossroads) (Volume 45) (Mark Padoongpatt) Apiary Birds’ eggs are some ofWith a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeless and Americas culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community. Full of vivid oral histories and new archival material, this book explores the factors that made foodways central to the Thai American experience. Starting