As part of our series on the culinary traditions of Lent we turn holy week in New Mexico in the 1940s.
As part of our series on the culinary traditions of Lent we turn holy week in New Mexico in the 1940s.
We are in a political environment in which some are demonizing immigrants. It seems shortsighted considering our history as a nation. Some four million Italians immigrated to the Americas between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1920s. Most settled in larger cities across the United States such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
For her “it wouldn’t seem like living without sweetcorn and green beans and tomatoes and things like that. Somehow vegetables don’t ever taste the same when you buy them out of the store” she said. “I’ll raise me some cucumbers for pickles, too.
Aunt Mary remembered out loud the years it took for her to master the sauerkraut that her husband loved, as younger women who coveted the recipe lingered on her every word.
In New Amsterdam, New York City, funerals had been the occasion for heavy drinking. Among the Pennsylvania Dutch the tradition called for heavy eating. . . .