Bitter greens : essays on food, politics, and ethnicity from the imperial kitchen / / Anthony Di Renzo
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| Autore: |
Di Renzo Anthony <1960->
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| Titolo: |
Bitter greens : essays on food, politics, and ethnicity from the imperial kitchen / / Anthony Di Renzo
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany : , : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, , 2010 |
| ©2010 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxii, 193 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 641.30945 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cooking, Italian |
| Food habits - Italy | |
| Food habits - United States | |
| Italian Americans - Food | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Italy Social life and customs |
| United States Social life and customs | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Program and Menu -- Preface -- Keynote -- Antipasto -- Primo -- Secondo -- Contorno -- Dolce -- CaffÈ -- After-Dinner Speech -- Envoy -- Acknowledgments |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bitter greens |
| ISBN: | 1-4384-3319-0 |
| 1-4416-7016-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817771303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series in Italian/American culture.