Wow, it's been awhile but I'm still here. I haven't felt the need to publish since the Friends of Sandpipers group on Facebook has been so successful. But here goes...
I've been struggling with a liver disease for a few years and take so many pills I rattle when I waddle. It affects my brain so I forget words and I bump into well, everything. Plus very low blood pressure is a bit of a problem. But here goes.
I have read a book I want to recommend.
It is 97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman,
available on Amazon for Kindle for $1.99,
so cheap-my kind of price.
Here is the description but I want to emphasize that what I found so appealing was the description of how the U.S. gov dealt with tens of thousands of immigrants in a humane manner. Very current in my opinion, and infuriating that we can't do as well as they did 120 years ago.
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“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round.” — Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World
97 Orchard is a richly detailed investigation of the lives and culinary habits—shopping, cooking, and eating—of five families of various ethnicities living at the turn of the twentieth century in one tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. With 40 recipes included, 97 Orchard is perfect for fans of Rachel Ray’s Hometown Eats; anyone interested in the history of how immigrant food became American food; and “foodies” of every stripe.
So read it and learn where our food choices came from.
