- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Introduction: <i>Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore</i>
- Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage
- “why, It's Mother”: the Italian Mothers' Clubs of New York
- Connecting Spheres Women's Work and Women's Lives In Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward
- Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants
- Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns Italian-American Women In New York City
- Italian Americans, 1990–2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data
- Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
- Gender Relations among Italian Americans
- Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- The Tradition of Invention: Reading History Through <i>La cucina casareccia napoletana</i>
- Italian-American Cookbooks From Oral to Print Culture
- Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- A Taste of Memories
- The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey Into Identity
- Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco
- The Novels of Mari Tomasi
- Breaking the Silence: An Interview With Tina De Rosa
- Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
- Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
- In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in <i>Blue Italian</i> and <i>Umbertina</i>
- Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome
- Mary Di Michele's Elegies
- Interview With Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert
- Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of “troublems”
- Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir
- Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor
- Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva
- Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation
- Italian-American Women: a Review Essay
- Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman
- Italian Women in America: Sources For Study
- Contributors
- Index
Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
- Chapter:
- (p.206) Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
- Source:
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Author(s):
Carol Bonomo Jennngs
Christine Palamidessi Moore
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
Food is not only fundamental to our survival but also integrally connected with social function and identity. Food and eating are “essential to self-identity and are instrumental in the definition of family, class, and ethnicity.” For Italians and Italian Americans, food is the most common example of what Herbert J. Gans calls “symbolic ethnicity” and very often serves as the mediating force between personal and social relationships in and outside the home. The rituals and routines of meal preparation and consumption become impediments for the young girl in Helen Barolini's short story “Greener Grass.” Food turns the family meal into a sacramental ritual that can unite even as it sacrifices those who will not or cannot partake in the communion, leaving food to a next generation who can easily digest it if certain recognitions of the past remain.
Keywords: food, symbolic ethnicity, Italian Americans, Greener Grass, Helen Barolini, family meal
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Introduction: <i>Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore</i>
- Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage
- “why, It's Mother”: the Italian Mothers' Clubs of New York
- Connecting Spheres Women's Work and Women's Lives In Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward
- Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants
- Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns Italian-American Women In New York City
- Italian Americans, 1990–2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data
- Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
- Gender Relations among Italian Americans
- Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- The Tradition of Invention: Reading History Through <i>La cucina casareccia napoletana</i>
- Italian-American Cookbooks From Oral to Print Culture
- Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- A Taste of Memories
- The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey Into Identity
- Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco
- The Novels of Mari Tomasi
- Breaking the Silence: An Interview With Tina De Rosa
- Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
- Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
- In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in <i>Blue Italian</i> and <i>Umbertina</i>
- Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome
- Mary Di Michele's Elegies
- Interview With Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert
- Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of “troublems”
- Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir
- Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor
- Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva
- Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation
- Italian-American Women: a Review Essay
- Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman
- Italian Women in America: Sources For Study
- Contributors
- Index