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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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.