| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Una famiglia che mangia insieme: Cibo ed etnicità nella comunità italoamericana di New York, 1920–1940 (A family that eats together: Food and ethnicity in the Italian American community of New York, 1920–1940). By Simone Cinotto. (Turin: Otto, 2001. 458 pp. Paper, Lit 35,000, ISBN 88-87503-24-9.) In Italian.
The complex relationship between Italian Americans and food is not a newly discovered subject of interest, but until recently it has attracted little serious study. Simone Cinotto, who considers food central to defining Italian American identity, completed a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Genoa in 2000 with a dissertation on the topic, and this book grew out of that research. He concludes that food traditions in the Italian American community provide a "language with which to articulate affective relationships, power connections, definitions of inclusion and exclusion, expressions of respectability and prestige" (p. 431).	1
Cinotto carried out his research almost entirely in New York City, using a wide range of sources in English, including newspapers, published memoirs, and unpublished papers in the Federal Writers' Project and the Leonard Covello collection, along with interviews he himself conducted. These materials will be of particular interest to Italian scholars.	. . .

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