Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration /

"Hungering for America tells the stories of three distinctive groups and their unique culinary dramas. Italian immigrants transformed the food of their upper classes and of sacred days into a generic "Italian" food that inspired community pride and cohesion. Irish immigrants, in contr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Diner, Hasia R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.