October 25, 2018
06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Italian American Women, Food, and Identity: Stories at the Table

Calandra Italian American Institute
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor
10036 New York, NY
United States

In the narratives collected in Italian American Women, Food, and Identity (Palgrave McMillan, 2018) food represents home, loss, and longing. Food also stands in for race, class, gender, sexuality, immigration, region, place, and space. This mother-daughter research team explores ways in which Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York, use food as a symbol and a social vehicle that carries multiple meanings.