Recipes for the melting pot : the lives of The settlement cook book /
"As part of the second great wave of Jewish immigration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jewish women benefited from the Settlement Movement, a Progressive attempt to Americanize new immigrants through a variety of educational, athletic, and artist...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "it takes history to bake such a cake"
- Dietary reform as moral identity: the settlement cook book and the contested idea of American food
- "For the defense of our own nationality": culinary pluralism and the settlement cook book as a path to inclusion
- Making dinner in America: the settlement cook book and domestic life
- From Milwaukee icon to american classic: the settlement cook book's enduring legacy
- A "Jewish joy of cooking"?: gastronomic nostalgia, culinary revisionism, and defining Jewish food