Hungering for America : : Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration / / Hasia R. Diner.
Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How they experienced the realities of America's abundant food-its meat and white bread, its butter and cheese, fruits and vegetables, coffee and beer-refle...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 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