Moderator

Jennifer Leigh Disney, Winthrop University

Panel Title

Food and Culture

Start Date

22-2-2019 11:10 AM

Location

Withers 113

Session Number

Session III

Description

Through the lens of the Italian immigration epoch colloquially known as "The Great Arrival," this paper explicates the relationship between the Italian immigrant experience in the U.S. and its corollary of Italian-American cuisine, dismantling the myth of the cuisine as a product of American bastardization and uncovering its true origins.

Keywords

Italian, immigration, italian-american, cuisine, immigrant

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I am a first-year student in the Master's in English Literature program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Gastronomic Purism: Immigrant Erasure in the Italian-American Potluck

Withers 113

Through the lens of the Italian immigration epoch colloquially known as "The Great Arrival," this paper explicates the relationship between the Italian immigrant experience in the U.S. and its corollary of Italian-American cuisine, dismantling the myth of the cuisine as a product of American bastardization and uncovering its true origins.