LEADER 03874nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910454590503321 005 20210814004657.0 010 $a0-674-03425-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674034259 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786774 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050669 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000175293 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11154375 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175293 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10190136 035 $a(PQKB)10602587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300329 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300329 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315833 035 $a(OCoLC)923110581 035 $a(DE-B1597)574590 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674034259 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786774 100 $a20010609d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHungering for America$b[electronic resource] $eItalian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration /$fHasia R. Diner 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations 311 $a0-674-00605-4 311 $a0-674-01111-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $t1. Ways of Eating, Ways of Starving -- $t2. Black Bread, Hard Bread: Food, Class, and Hunger in Italy -- $t3. ?The Bread Is Soft?: Italian Foodways, American Abundance -- $t4. ?Outcast from Life?s Feast?: Food and Hunger in Ireland -- $t5. The Sounds of Silence: Irish Food in America -- $t6. A Set Table: Jewish Food and Class in Eastern Europe -- $t7. Food Fights: Immigrant Jews and the Lure of America -- $t8. Where There Is Bread, There Is My Country -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $bMillions 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 around which family and religious practice gathered, found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices. These tales, of immigrants in their old worlds and in the new, demonstrate the role of hunger in driving migration and the significance of food in cementing ethnic identity and community. Hasia Diner confirms the well-worn adage, "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." 606 $aItalians$xFood$zUnited States 606 $aIrish$xFood$zUnited States 606 $aJews$xFood$zUnited States 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States 606 $aFood habits$zUnited States 606 $aFood habits$zEurope 606 $aFamines$zEurope 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aItalians$xFood 615 0$aIrish$xFood 615 0$aJews$xFood 615 0$aImmigrants 615 0$aFood habits 615 0$aFood habits 615 0$aFamines 676 $a394.108900973 700 $aDiner$b Hasia R$0458823 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454590503321 996 $aHungering for America$92157105 997 $aUNINA