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Academy of Arts, 40, 41

Age of Migration, xi

Ainsworth’s Magazine
, 78

alcohol consumption, in New York, 31-32

alcohol production, in United States, 31-32

ale, English, 32

Aleichem, Sholem, 174-175

Allaire Iron Works, 6

Allaire, James, 6

Amchanitzki, Hinde, 158-159

America, abundance of, 191

American food traditions, and Irish servants, 54-55

Americanization:

of immigrants, 165-166

and school lunchrooms, 165-166

Americans:

as pie-eaters, xiv attitude toward alcohol, 34

attitude toward Italian immigrants, 187-188

attraction to German foods, 41

dislike for Italian food, 217-218

introduction of immigrants foods, xiv

love of spaghetti, 223-225

Ansche Chesed (synagogue), 95

anti-Semitism, 133

apartments, at 97 Orchard, 7

arancini
(rice balls), 210

The Art of Jewish Cooking
, 151-152

Ashkenazi Jews, culinary traditions, 88-91

Astor, John Jacob, as tenement investor, 5-6

Atlantic Gardens beer hall, 35-36

“Aunt Babette” (Bertha Kramer), 101, 110, 111

Aunt Babette’s Cook Book
(Bertha Kramer), 97-98, 122

The Auxiliary Cook Book
(Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society), 101

baccala
(salt codfish), recipe, 226

bacon, and Jews, 98

bakeries, German, description, 27-28

bakers, German, 27-31

Baldizzi family:

and bread, 210

and Depression, 199

Christmas dinner, 226-227

life, xi, 184, 197-200, 212

meals, 199-200

move to Brooklyn, 225-226

Baldizzi, Adolfo, 197-198, 212-213, 225

Baldizzi, John, 199

Baldizzi, Josephine, 199, 212

Baldizzi, Rosaria, 197-200, 212-213, 225-227

bananas, 127

banquets:

German, 43, 80

German-Jewish, 121-122

Irish-American, 80

medieval, 91

messianic, 91-92

Thanksgiving, 130-131

Beecher, Miss, 70

“beef an” (corned beef and beans), 73

beer halls:

food served at, 36

German, xiv, 34-36, 42

Signs, 27

beer production, New York, 31-32

beer, German:

as family drink, 34-36,

at picnics, 44-45

bock, 25

Germany, 22, 31-36

lager, 33, 44-45

Bennet, James Gordon, 73

berches
(Jewish ritual bread), 91

Beyer, Annie, 141

Beyer, Joseph, 141

“beygals” (bagels), xiv

Black Hand, 188

blintzes, 106, 156

Bloch Printing, 98

Bloch, Edward, 98

Blood of My Blood
(Richard Gambino), 195

boarders, 142

boardinghouse dwellers, as “hash eaters,” 70-71

boardinghouses:

cuisine of, 70-71

food supplies of, 17

immigrant, 66-70

Irish, 67-70

Italian, 186

kitchens, 69

landladies, 69-70

New York, 1, 221

Bohemians, New York, 37-39

bondes
(potato dish), 109

book vendors, pushcart market, 158

borscht, 147

The Boston Cooking School Cook Book
, 224

bouillon cubes, 187

Bowery, the, 20-21, 35-36

boycott, meat, 178-179

bread crumbs, 210-212

bread peddlers, 208-209

bread:

German, 28

importance to Sicilians, 207-212

Sicilian, 209-210

symbolism, 208

traditions in New York, 28

Vienna, 29-30

Breakstone & Levine, 152

breweries, 32-33

brewers, German, 32-33

A Brief Account of the Author’s Interview with His Countrymen
(Jeremiah O’Donovan), 67-68

Brieneh, Hannah (fictional character), 181

“Bringing Up Father,” 81

Brooklyn Eagle
, 10

Brooklyn:

Baldizzi family in, 225-226

Sicilians in, 195, 208

brothels, 52-53

Brown, Mary, 52

Browne, Junius Henri, 15

burial societies, German, 22

butchers, signs, 26-27

butter, Irish and, 58, 63

butter, Jews and, 111

buttermilk, 60

cabbage, 61, 78

caciocavallo
(Italian cheese), 194

cafés:

as political clubs, 175-176

East Side, xiv

Hungarian Jewish, 172-174

kibitzing in, 174-175

Russian Jewish, 174-175

Sicilian, 222

cakes, German, 30-31

campanilismo
(Italian love of hometown), 222

candy factories, 201-204

candy, Italian, 200, 204-207

carp, in Jewish cuisine, 83-84, 86-87

Castle Garden, 63-64

Catherine the Great, 132-133

census:

1850, 2-4

1870, 3

1880, 4

history of, 3-4

Irish, 59

pushcart, 145

Centennial Exhibition (Philadelphia), 29

challah bread, 87, 90, 91, 155, 156

challah recipe, 157-158

Chanales, Lillian, 180

charity, stigma, 154-155

Chicago Tribune
, 224

chicken fat, 118

chicken market, Lower East Side, 117

chicken noodle soup, 107

children:

German, and beer, 34-35

Lower East Side, as firewood collectors, xiii

Chinese railroad workers, and food, 187

cholent, 103, 141

chop suey, farmer’s, 147

chopped liver, vegetarian, recipe, 179-180

Chotzinoff, Samuel, 170

Christmas
baccala
(salt codfish), recipe, 226

Christmas dinner, Italian, 226-227

Christmas traditions:

German in America, 25

New York, 79-80

Cincinnati, 97, 98, 100

Citizens’ Association, 114

Clapp, Henry, 38

“coffee and cake shops,” 71-72

coffee cake:

German, 30-31

recipe, 30-31

coffee, Hungarian Jews and, 172-173

Cohen, Fannie, 155-158

Collect pond, 5

confectioners, Italian, 204

confetti
(Italian candy), 200, 204

Congregation Emanuel (synagogue), 86

contadini
(Southern Italian peasants), 195

cookbooks:

German-Jewish, 91, 110

Jewish, 98, 158-159

cooking classes, settlement house, 160-165

cooks, boardinghouse, 17, 70

cooks, Ellis Island, 139-140

Cooper, John, 89

Cork, Ireland, 58, 77

corned beef, 70

corned beef and cabbage, 76-82, 129

Council Cook Book
(Council of Jewish Women), 101

The Country Housewife’s Family Companion
(William Elllis), 77

courtyards, tenement, 1-2, 7

credit, buying on, 14

Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife
(Procter & Gamble), 118

Crisco, 118

croccante
(almond brittle), recipe, 206-207

Cromwell, Oliver, 56

Crusades, 89

cucuzza
(Italian squash), 216

Daily Forward
, 104, 146

dairy foods, Irish, 56, 57

dairy restaurants, Jewish, 177-180

dandelion-pickers, Italian, xiii dandelions, wild, 215-216

Davidis, Henrietta, 9, 12, 26

De Voe, Thomas, on markets, 15-17

DeCasseres, Benjamin, 40-41

“delicatessen habit,” 167-168

delicatessens:

and East European Jews, 169-170

aromas, 169

backlash against, 167-168

German, 19

herring dishes at, 19-20

New York, 166-171

products, 167

Delmonico’s, 37

deportees, love of Ellis Island food, 130

Deutsche Bund
(“German League”), 21

Deutsche-Amerikanische Schutzengesellchaft
, 43

Diner, Hasia, 59

dining room, Ellis Island, 126-131

dining rooms, German-Jewish, 99

dinner staples, nineteenth-century America, xiv

dinners, German-Jewish, 104-106, 121, 122

Dinty Moore’s, 81

Dolan, Patrick, 72-74

Dolan’s Restaurant, 72-74

domestic science movement:

and delicatessens, 167-168

and immigrant food, 163-166

and Italian immigrants, 193

United States, 160-161, 224

doughnuts, 73

dumplings:

accompaniments, 110

German 12-13, 21

green, recipe, 12-13

potato, 109-111

Dutch Reformed Presbyterian Church, 4

East European Jews, and delicatessens, 169

East Prussia:

culinary traditions, 102-103

history, 93-94

Jews, 94

Easter, Little Italy, 204

Eat and Be Satisfied
(John Cooper), 89

eating habits, Jewish immigrant, 149-151

Educational Alliance, 160, 162

egg vendors, 107

eggplants in the oven, recipe, 217

Elizabeth Street, 198, 209

Ellis Island:

as “island of tears,” 131

as molder of future citizens, 132

deportees, 126

description, 125-132

detainees, 125-126, 132

dining room, 126-131

dormitories, 126

food contractors at, 127-128

inspection of new arrivals at, 136

kosher food at, 135-140

lunch stand, 127, 134

poor treatment of immigrants at, 131-132

reforms at, 132

employment agencies, 52-53

England, interference in Ireland, 56

English culture in New York, 48

Enlightenment, Jewish, 95-96

Ermich’s, 36

Essex Market, 19

ethnic biases, against Italians, 187-193

Europe:

Age of Migration in, xi

medieval food culture, 88

potatoes, 107-108

European immigration, peak, 125

The Fair Cook Book
(Congregation Emanuel), 86-87

family supper, Italian, 195-196

famines, Ireland, 48, 59

The Famous Cook Book
(Congregation Temple de Hirsch), 100, 110

Farmer, Fannie, 9, 224

farms:

Ireland, 56-57

Italian, 216

fat:

chicken, 118

hydrogenated, 118

Jewish use of, 111-113

feast foods, Italian, 196-197

feste
(Italian festivals), 204-206

Fifth Avenue Hotel, 80

Fine & Schapiro, 169

First Principles of Household Management
, 71

fish hash, recipe, 71

Fishel, Harry, 136-137

Fisher’s Alley, 23

Five Points (neighborhood), 5, 20, 65-66, 220

flavors, Jewish food, 149-151

Fleischmann, Louis, 29-30

Fleischmann’s Instant Yeast, 30

foie gras, 114, 116

foie gras, faux, recipe, 116

food:

customs, European, in America, xiv-xv

distribution, shadow economy, 191

expenses, Irish immigrants, 62-63

exports, Ireland, 57-58, 77

laws, Jewish,
see
kashruth

merchants, Lower East Side, 180-181

peddlers, Dublin, 78-79

rackets, 115, 231-232n

sharing, 152-157

stores, Lower East Side, 152

trades, ethnic, 27

sacredness of in Jewish culture, 119

food-joy, Jewish, 119-122

Foods of the Foreign-Born in Relation to Health
(Bertha Wood), 149

foods, forbidden, 95-101

force-feeding, geese, 112

Foster, George, 76

14th Street, as entertainment district, 39-40

frankfurters, 22, 26, 41, 169, 170