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97 Orchard
Book • 2010
In '97 Orchard,' Jane Ziegelman tells the culinary and social history of five immigrant families who lived at a single tenement address on New York's Lower East Side.
Using archival sources and recipes, the book reconstructs how immigrant cuisines adapted, fused, and influenced the city's food culture.
Ziegelman situates daily cooking within broader themes of poverty, assimilation, and urban change, showing how food both sustained communities and bridged cultures.
The book illuminates the practical resourcefulness of immigrant households and their contributions to American eating habits.
It has become a key text for understanding the material and cultural history of immigrant foodways.
Using archival sources and recipes, the book reconstructs how immigrant cuisines adapted, fused, and influenced the city's food culture.
Ziegelman situates daily cooking within broader themes of poverty, assimilation, and urban change, showing how food both sustained communities and bridged cultures.
The book illuminates the practical resourcefulness of immigrant households and their contributions to American eating habits.
It has become a key text for understanding the material and cultural history of immigrant foodways.
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