97 Orchard An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

Name: 97 Orchard An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
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ISBN: 9780061288517

ISBN-10: 0061288519

ISBN-13: 9780061288517

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Authors: Jane Ziegelman

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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, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets. Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

JANE ZIEGELMAN is a food and travel writer.



Introduction



The Glockner FamilyP1



The Moore Family



The Gumpertz Family



The Rogarshevsky Family



The Baldizzi Family


Notes


Bibliography


Photo Credits


Index