Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens

✍ Scribed by Lynne C. Anderson

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Series: California Studies in Food and Culture; 29
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through stories of hand-rolled pasta and homemade chutney, local markets and backyard gardens, and wild mushrooms and foraged grape leaves—this book recounts in loving detail the memories, recipes, and culinary traditions of people who have come to the United States from around the world. Chef and teacher Lynne Anderson has gone into immigrant kitchens and discovered the power of food to recall a lost world for those who have left much behind. The enticing, easy-to-prepare recipes feature specialties like Greek dolmades, Filipino adobo, Brazilian peixada, and Sudanese mulukhiyah. Together with Robin Radin’s beautiful photographs, these stories and recipes will inspire cooks of all levels to explore new traditions while perhaps rediscovering their own culinary roots.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Scooping the Memories
2. It’s Like a Continuum
3. Add a Place at the Table
4. Foraging Together but Alone
5. A Savage Loves His Own Shore
6. Swapping Food on Sundays
7. Living the Culture Every Day
8. Eating Alone
9. Quiet in America
10. Remembering Where You Started
11. Eating the Flag
12. A Happy Straddler
13. This Is America?
14. More Relaxed but a Little Tired
15. Bringing Good Things with Food
16. Keeping the Connection Flowing
17. Food, the Great Icebreaker
18. Man in the Kitchen
19. Part of You Goes into the Cooking
20. Teaching Both Ways
21. Preserving Home
22. Less Conservative Now
23. It’s Okay to Be Different
24. Cooking Every Day
25. Why Not Teach Them to Cook?
California Studies in Food and Culture