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 |