This book is about Italian American women, food, identity, and our stories at the table. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American workin

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How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Ita

It is probably impossible to measure the far-reaching effect Italian-American women have had on community and culture. Italian women of yesterday have enriched

"My ancestral Italian village in America was in Waterbury Connecticut." In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book: To what