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Migrant marketplaces : food and Italians in North and South America

Zanoni, Elizabeth, author

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\"Today middle class consumers in the Americas drive the transatlantic trade in Italian foods associated with refined consumption--award-winning regional wines, herb infused olive oils, heirloom San Marzano canned tomatoes, syrupy balsamic vinegars, and pungent slabs of aged parmigiano cheese. At the same time, pizza and pasta are considered typical fare in the U.S. and Argentina. Both developments reflect major changes since the late 19th century when Italy was associated with less luxurious items, mainly mass proletariat migrants, food staple exports, and an unpalatable, garlic-saturated cuisine. During this time of mass labor migration, it was migrant demand for homeland tastes that opened up and sustained transnational trade routes in Italian food items, routes that linked Italians in migrant marketplaces in New York, Buenos Aires, and other cities of the Americas to Italy and to each other. This historical journey from labor migrants to middle-class consumers is a story about international migrants, about the foods and consumption habits that traveled with them, and about how the presence of both mobile people and products ultimately transformed the identities and consumer practices of migrants and non-migrants alike. This book examines how connections between Italian people and products in all three countries influenced migrants' consumer experiences during the age of mass migration\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Subject: Italians Food United States History. / Italians Food Argentina History. / Consumers' preferences United States History. / Consumers' preferences Argentina History. / Emigration and immigration Economic aspects History. / Italy Emigration and immigration.
• ISBN: 9780252041655, 9780252083297

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GT2850.Z36 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE