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
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.
Your Title/College/Department/Program
I am a first-year student in the Master's in English Literature program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.