The taste of retro: nostalgia, sensory landscapes and cosmopolitanism in Singapore
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2015
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Duruz, J.
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Kong, L.
Sinha, V.
Sinha, V.
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Source details - Title: Food, Foodways and Foodscapes: Culture, Community and Consumption in Post-Colonial Singapore, 2015 / Kong, L., Sinha, V. (ed./s), Ch.6, pp.133-158
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You can restore vanished buildings with visual records but… [o]nly smell can evoke the atmosphere, the aura of a place and plunge us back in time. A mere whiff can intuit the past with more primal immediacy than the laminated prints of old places sold in antique and curio shops… (Boey 2009: 178-179). Even though Le Café‘s pineapple balls and bean curd tarts have become extremely popular, they still continue to make… retro-licious Butter Cream Cakes… in their kitchen behind because they do not want to lose their traditions to modern-day fads (Ang 2013).
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