An 'Edible History' Of Immigrant Families

This NPR interview introduces a book about some of the families who are featured in the museum in my previous post. The book uses food to tell the immigrant story in NYC Lower East Side. - - Donna Poisl

GUY RAZ, NPR

As immigrants from Europe began to stream into America en masse in the mid-1850s, hundreds of tenement buildings went up around Manhattan's Lower East Side. One of those buildings is still around today. It's at 97 Orchard Street, and it houses the Tenement Museum.

It was built in 1863 by a German immigrant named Lucas Glockner. Its earliest tenants were Germans, then Irishmen, then European Jews and finally, Italians. And one of the ways those new Americans preserved the traditions from the old country was through food.
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