{"product_id":"97-orchard-an-edible-history-of-five-immigrant-families-in-one-new-york-tenement-isbn-9780061288500","title":"97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round.” — Russell Shorto, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Island at the Center of the World \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e97 Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly detailed investigation of the lives and culinary habits—shopping, cooking, and eating—of five families of various ethnicities living at the turn of the twentieth century in one tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. With 40 recipes included, \u003cem\u003e97 Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e is perfect for fans of Rachel Ray’s \u003cem\u003eHometown Eats\u003c\/em\u003e; anyone interested in the history of how immigrant food became American food; and “foodies” of every stripe.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e97 Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZiegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. While health officials worried that pushcarts were unsanitary and that pickles made immigrants too excitable to be good citizens, a culinary revolution was taking place in the streets of what had been culturally an English city. Along the East River, German immigrants founded breweries, dispensing their beloved lager in the dozens of beer gardens that opened along the Bowery. Russian Jews opened tea parlors serving blintzes and strudel next door to Romanian nightclubs that specialized in goose pastrami. On the streets, Italian peddlers hawked the cheese-and-tomato pies known as \u003cem\u003epizzarelli\u003c\/em\u003e, while Jews sold knishes and squares of halvah. Gradually, as Americans began to explore the immigrant ghetto, they uncovered the array of comestible enticements of their foreign-born neighbors. \u003cem\u003e97 Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e charts this exciting process of discovery as it lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Highly entertaining and deceptively ambitious.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A tasty, satisfying stew of history, sociology, cultural anthropology, and spicy prose.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An engaging and delicious slice of life on the Lower East Side. And the recipes found in this book, though originating from various cultures, all have the air of comfort foods and home.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoan Nathan, author of Jewish Cooking in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What do just-arrived immigrants see as they gaze around a new land, and what do their native-born neighbors see as they newcomers make their presence felt? More practically: How do people begin the work of putting food on their tables amid unfamiliar streets and languages? These questions couldn’t be more timely. Nor could Jane Ziegelman’s penetrating exploration of them. You will come away with a renewed sense of what it means to be an American.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Mendelson, author of Milk and Stand Facing the Stove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A truly fine idea. It not only opens a window to view the ways in which our nation’s immigrants cooked and ate, it broadens and enriches our understanding of the entire immigrant experience. This book is an impressive contribution to American cultural history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNach Waxman, Kitchen Arts \u0026amp; Letters, New York City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ziegelman puts a historical spin to the notion that you are what you eat. . . . Ziegelman vividly renders a proud, diverse community learning to be American. Through food, the author records the immigrants’ struggle to reinterpret themselves in an American context and their reciprocal impact on American culture at large.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jane Ziegelman brings us into the kitchens of five women whose home cooking not only fed their families and their neighborhoods but became part of the culinary DNA of America itself. Drawing on wonderfully evocative primary sources, Ziegelman describes how they contributed to the complexities of ethnic identity, class, and religion in a tumultuous city. Beautifully written and full of insights, 97 Orchard makes it clear that the story of New York is overwhelmingly a story about buying, selling, cooking, eating, and sharing food.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this compelling foray into forensic gastronomy, Ziegelman pulls the facade off the titular 97 Orchard Street tenement. The result is a living dollhouse that invites us to gaze in from the sidewalk.With minds open and mouths agape, we witness the comings and goings of the building’s inhabitants in the years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. By focusing on the culinary lives of individuals from a variety of ethnic groups, Ziegelman pieces together a thorough sketch of Manhattan’s Lower East Side at a time when these immigrants were at the forefront of a rapidly changing urban life. The food facts she uncovers are sure to interest and astound even those outside the culinary community, and guarantee that the reader will never look at a kosher dill pickle, a wrapped hard candy, or even the delectable foie gras the same way again. Ziegelman cleverly takes this opportunity to show us that in learning about food, we’re actually learning about history—and when it comes to the sometimes surprising journey some of our favorite meals have taken to get here, it’s fascinating stuff.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This whole book is a celebration of food, language, and of the mutual aid and comfort that these brave pioneers shared with their tenement neighbors and the citizens who took them in.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie Wittes Schlack, The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Blending history, sociology, anthropology and economics, spiced with recipes, Ziegelman offers a looks at the Lower East Side and the immigrants who made it legendary.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Jewish Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is an eye-opening exploration of the social and economic history of those who thrived and survived, in spite of significant odds, on New York’s Lower East Side. 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