AIHA Conference Volume
29. 1996. A Tavola! Food, Tradition, and Community Among Italian Americans. . Edvige Giunta and Samuel J. Patti, eds. 137 pp. Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 14-15, 1996.
Table of Contents
Edvige Giunta and Samuel J. Patti, Introduction
p. i
Food and Identity: The Personal and the Cultural
Suzanne Branciforte, The Madeleine Became a Cavatello: Food, Memory, and Italian-American Identity
p. 1
Camille Cauti, Pass the Identity, Please: Culinary Passing in America
p. 10
John R. Mitrano, I Have a Craving for Italian
: Food and Ethnic Identity Formation
Among Generation X Italian Americans
p. 20
Food as Culture: Productions and Reproductions
Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, Cena Trimalchionis: Identity in the Publishing Industry
p. 33
Jennifer Lucchino, Deciphering Italian American Kitchen Design
p. 49
Stefano Luconi, Not Only A Tavola: Radio Broadcasting and Patterns of Ethnic
Consumption Among Italian Americans in the Interwar Years
p. 58
Elizabeth G. Messina, Soul-Food ad Psychologically Transcendent Ways of Knowing in Household Saints
p. 68
Cassandra Vivian, Festa di Quarata: A Binding Tradition
p. 83
Food in Literature: Contexts and Representations
Edvige Giunta, Spills of Mysterious Substances or Making Ones Own
History: Tina De Rosa, Louise DeSalvo, Sandra Mortola Gilbert, and Rose Romano
p. 97
Josephine Hendin, Festas and Foodfights: Italian-American Postmodernism as a Feast of Words
p. 107
Julia Lisella, Radicalizing an Uncertain Past: The Poetry of Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
p. 115
Contributors
p. 129
Index
p. 135