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This chapter draws attention to restaurants and bars offering ethnic cuisines in the urban space. It offers a general overview of factors that are thought to be responsible for this widespread phenomenon from a historical perspective, ranging from migration to the unification of global trends. As well as analysing changes in dominant cuisines, it also explores the distribution of different kinds of cuisines across the urban space. It focuses mainly on two cities: Amsterdam (The Netherlands), as an example of a Western European city with a long tradition of immigration and a long history of serving ethnic cuisines; and Warsaw (Poland), as an example of a Central European city, where after years of communism ethnic gastronomy only began to expand at the beginning of the 1990s. Although the history of the development of ethnic cuisines in the two cities is very different, their current situation is similar: Italian cuisine dominates, while Japanese cuisine is one of the most popular. Migration, once considered to be one of the most important influences on eating habits, is being increasingly replaced by globalisation.
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Derek, M. (2020). Ethnic Cuisine in Urban Space. In: Kowalczyk, A., Derek, M. (eds) Gastronomy and Urban Space. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34492-4_11
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