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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rubel, Nora L., 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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