The Italian American Table

"Written with passion and clarity, The Italian American Table represents a stunning achievement.  While tackling an irresistible topic--the meaning of food in the lives of Italian immigrants and their children--Simone Cinotto has managed to write a book that should please a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars and readers."--The Journal of American History

"Insightful, pathbreaking research. . . . a new perspective on the linkage between food and family. Recommended."--Choice

"In clear, bright prose Cinotto focuses on the period spanning from 1920 to 1940, and thus extends beyond the years of intense Italian immigration to include generational change and later cultural reproduction… The book appropriately cleaves between Italian American immigrant's food culture and later attempts at selling 'Italian' food to white Americans… Food is part of a larger cultural economy here, and Cinotto sheds some light on its production as a symbol and commodity over several generations."--American Historical Review