To Serve and to Protect: Food Trucks and Food Safety in a Transforming Los Angeles
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This chapter explores the evolution of food trucks and food safety regulations for these vehicles in the Los Angeles region between WW2 and the present. It shows how food trucks have reacted to and influenced the region’s industrialization and deindustrialization, and how food trucks became more informal and public as immigration made Los Angeles a majority non-white metropolis. In considering how food safety changed as operators began cooking on board trucks, the chapter examines how safety rules can both protect the public and reflect social norms of legitimacy around identity and public space.
1995 ◽
Vol 49
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pp. 4-9
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2019 ◽
pp. 1234-1234
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2020 ◽