Breaking Bread Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (303 pages)
- California Studies in Food & Culture, 29 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Breaking Bread; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SCOOPING THE MEMORIES; IT'S LIKE A CONTINUUM; ADD A PLACE AT THE TABLE; FORAGING TOGETHER BUT ALONE; A SAVAGE LOVES HIS OWN SHORE; SWAPPING FOOD ON SUNDAYS; LIVING THE CULTURE EVERY DAY; EATING ALONE; QUIETIN AMERICA; REMEMBERING WHERE YOU STARTED; EATING THE FLAG; A HAPPY STRADDLER; THIS IS AMERICA?; MORE RELAXED BUT A LITTLE TIRED; BRINGING GOOD THINGS WITH FOOD; KEEPING THE CONNECTION FLOWING; FOOD, THE GREAT ICEBREAKER; MAN IN THE KITCHEN; PART OF YOU GOES INTO THE COOKING; TEACHING BOTH WAYS; PRESERVING HOME. Less conservative nowit's okay to be different; cooking every day; why not teach them to cook?
"Lynne Anderson's portraits of recent immigrant families capture a crucial truth about how real food connects us to our culture, our memories, and to one another. This is an important book." Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Restaurant"Everyone loves talking about food. In this remarkable book, Lynne Anderson lets recent immigrants to America speak in their own words about the foods they most loved from their homelands. Her cook-storytellers use recipes for cherished foods as a way to recall childhood memories, the events that caused them to emigrate, and their efforts to assimilatet.