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Traces the colorful culinary history of immigrants and the impact that their native foods and unique neighborhoods-from New York City's Lower East Side to New Orleans' Italian Quarter-has had on American folk culture. During the Depression, the Colombrosians, an Armenian family, began... read more

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First Sentence

FIG TREES AND GRAPEVINES grew in the backyards of many an Italian immigrant.

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  1. Joel Denker (Author)

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