Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Enjoyment and Ethnic Identity in No- No Boy and Obasan -- 2 Masculinity, Food, and Appetite in Frank Chin's Donald Duk and " The Eat and Run Midnight People" -- 3 Class and Cuisine in David Wong Louie's The Barbarians Are Coming -- 4 Diaspora, Transcendentalism, and Ethnic Gastronomy in the Works of Li- Young Lee -- 5 Sexuality, Colonialism, and Ethnicity in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt and Mei Ng's Eating Chinese Food Naked -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.