97 Orchard : An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement Paperback - 2011
by Jane Ziegelman
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
This delicious saga of how immigrant food became American food follows European immigrants on a remarkable journey from the Ellis Island dining hall to tiny tenement kitchens, from Lower East Side pushcart markets and delicatessens out into the wider world of American cuisine.
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- Title 97 Orchard : An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
- Author Jane Ziegelman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 58165th
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, NY, USA
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0061288519I4N00
- ISBN 9780061288517 / 0061288519
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.33 x 0.67 in (20.45 x 13.54 x 1.70 cm)
- Reading level 1280
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) - Social, Food habits - New York (State) - New York -
- Dewey Decimal Code 394.120
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From the rear cover
In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century--a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, Ziegelman takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments, down dimly lit stairwells, beyond the front stoops where housewives congregated, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets. Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. 97 Orchard lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.
