97 Orchard Quotes

“For Americans who believed that Italians subsisted on bread and macaroni, the edible delights available in the downtown restaurants came as a revelation.”
― Jane Ziegelman, 97 Orchard : An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

“The Italians arrived with a strong musical tradition; they also had their faith. But food was their cultural touchstone, their way of defying the critics, of tolerating the slurs and all of the other injustices. It was their way of being Italian.”
― Jane Ziegelman, 97 Orchard : An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement