Bitter greens : essays on food, politics, and ethnicity from the imperial kitchen / Anthony Di Renzo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Renzo, Anthony, 1960-

Series:

SUNY series in Italian/American culture.

SUNY series in Italian/American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Italian.

Food habits--Italy.

Food habits.

Food habits--United States.

Italian Americans--Food.

Italian Americans.

Italy--Social life and customs.

Italy.

United States--Social life and customs.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 193 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the inclusion of six classic recipes, Bitter Greens is not an ethnic cookbook but a Roman banquet of political satire, cultural criticism, and culinary memoir. Set primarily in the Empire State and arranged like the courses of a traditional Italian meal, Anthony Di Renzo's wide-ranging essays meditate on Italian food at the noon of American imperialism and the twilight of ethnicity, exploring such issues as the Wegmans supermarket chain's conquest of Sicily; assembly-line sausages; the fabled onion fields of Canastota, New York; the tripe shops of postwar Brooklyn; Hunts Point Market and Andy Boy broccoli rabe; and the fatal lure of Sicilian chocolate. Is the new global supermarket a democratic feast, Di Renzo asks, or a cannibal potluck where consumers are themselves consumed? Sip an aperitif, toast Horace and Juvenal, and enjoy Chef Di Renzo's catered symposium. It will feed your mind, tickle your ribs, and heal your spleen.

Contents:

Front Matter

Program and Menu

Preface

Keynote

Antipasto

Primo

Secondo

Contorno

Dolce

CaffÈ

After-Dinner Speech

Envoy

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781438433196

1438433190

9781441670168

1441670165

OCLC:

662453080