The Italian American table : food, family, and community in New York City / Simone Cinotto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cinotto, Simone.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Italian.

Italian Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the centre of the lives of immigrants and their children. From generational conflicts resolved around the family table to a vibrant food-based economy of ethnic producers, importers, and restaurateurs, food was essential to the creation of an Italian American identity.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Social Origins of Ethnic Tradition: Food, Family, and Community in Italian Harlem

1.The Contested Table: Food, Gender, and Generations in Italian Harlem, 1920

1930

2."Sunday Dinner? You Had to Be There!": Making Food, Family, and Nation in Italian Harlem, 1930

1940

3.An American Foodscape: Food, Place, and Race in Italian Harlem

pt. II Producing and Consuming Italian American Identities: The Ethnic Food Trade

4.The American Business of Italian Food: Producers, Consumers, and the Making of Ethnic Identities

5."Buy Italian!": Imports, Diasporic Nationalism, and the Politics of Authenticity

6.Serving Ethnicity: Italian Restaurants, American Eaters, and the Making of an Ethnic Popular Culture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252095016

0252095014

OCLC:

864552174