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Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (314 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674034259
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hungering for AmericaDDC classification:
  • 394.1/2/08691
LOC classification:
  • GT2853
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Ways of Eating, Ways of Starving -- 2. Black Bread, Hard Bread: Food, Class, and Hunger in Italy -- 3. "The Bread Is Soft": Italian Foodways, American Abundance -- 4. "Outcast from Life's Feast": Food and Hunger in Ireland -- 5. The Sounds of Silence: Irish Food in America -- 6. A Set Table: Jewish Food and Class in Eastern Europe -- 7. Food Fights: Immigrant Jews and the Lure of America -- 8. Where There Is Bread, There Is My Country -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: This book tells the stories of three groups and their unique culinary dramas. Italian immigrants transformed the food of their upper classes and of sacred days into a generic "Italian" food. Irish immigrants diminished food as a marker of ethnicity. And East European Jews found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Ways of Eating, Ways of Starving -- 2. Black Bread, Hard Bread: Food, Class, and Hunger in Italy -- 3. "The Bread Is Soft": Italian Foodways, American Abundance -- 4. "Outcast from Life's Feast": Food and Hunger in Ireland -- 5. The Sounds of Silence: Irish Food in America -- 6. A Set Table: Jewish Food and Class in Eastern Europe -- 7. Food Fights: Immigrant Jews and the Lure of America -- 8. Where There Is Bread, There Is My Country -- Notes -- Index.

This book tells the stories of three groups and their unique culinary dramas. Italian immigrants transformed the food of their upper classes and of sacred days into a generic "Italian" food. Irish immigrants diminished food as a marker of ethnicity. And East European Jews found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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