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The Resource Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration, Hasia R. Diner

Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration, Hasia R. Diner

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Summary
  • "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 - reflected their earlier deprivations and shaped their ethnic practices in the new land."
  • "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 contrast, loath to mimic the foodways of the Protestant British elite, diminished food as a marker of ethnicity. And East European Jews, who venerated food as the vital center of family and religious practice, found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages)
Contents
  • Ways of Eating, Ways of Starving
  • Black Bread, Hard Bread: Food, Class, and Hunger in Italy
  • "The Bread Is Soft": Italian Foodways, American Abundance
  • "Outcast from Life's Feast": Food and Hunger in Ireland
  • The Sounds of Silence: Irish Food in America
  • A Set Table: Jewish Food and Class in Eastern Europe
  • Food Fights: Immigrant Jews and the Lure of America
  • Where There Is Bread, There Is My Country
Isbn
9780674034259
Instance
Label
Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration
Title
Hungering for America
Title remainder
Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration
Statement of responsibility
Hasia R. Diner
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "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 - reflected their earlier deprivations and shaped their ethnic practices in the new land."
  • "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 contrast, loath to mimic the foodways of the Protestant British elite, diminished food as a marker of ethnicity. And East European Jews, who venerated food as the vital center of family and religious practice, found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices."--Jacket
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Diner, Hasia R
Dewey number
394.1/2/08691
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
GT2853.U5
LC item number
D54 2001eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Italians
  • Irish
  • Jews
  • Immigrants
  • Food habits
  • Food habits
  • Famines
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • HISTORY
  • Famines
  • Food habits
  • Immigrants
  • Jews
  • Europe
  • United States
  • Einwanderer
  • Essgewohnheit
  • Iren
  • Italiener
  • Juden
  • USA
  • Italianen
  • Ieren
  • Joden
  • Immigranten
  • Voedingsgewoonten
  • Culturele identiteit
  • Juden
  • USA
  • Italiener
  • Iren
Label
Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration, Hasia R. Diner
Instantiates
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Ways of Eating, Ways of Starving -- Black Bread, Hard Bread: Food, Class, and Hunger in Italy -- "The Bread Is Soft": Italian Foodways, American Abundance -- "Outcast from Life's Feast": Food and Hunger in Ireland -- The Sounds of Silence: Irish Food in America -- A Set Table: Jewish Food and Class in Eastern Europe -- Food Fights: Immigrant Jews and the Lure of America -- Where There Is Bread, There Is My Country
Control code
435534569
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780674034259
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctvk03bbn
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)435534569
Label
Hungering for America : Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration, Hasia R. Diner
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Ways of Eating, Ways of Starving -- Black Bread, Hard Bread: Food, Class, and Hunger in Italy -- "The Bread Is Soft": Italian Foodways, American Abundance -- "Outcast from Life's Feast": Food and Hunger in Ireland -- The Sounds of Silence: Irish Food in America -- A Set Table: Jewish Food and Class in Eastern Europe -- Food Fights: Immigrant Jews and the Lure of America -- Where There Is Bread, There Is My Country
Control code
435534569
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780674034259
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctvk03bbn
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)435534569

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