Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture
In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s.
Creole Italian chronicles how the business of food, broadly conceived, dictated the reasoning, means, and outcomes for a large portion of the nearly forty thousand Sicilian immigrants who entered America through the port of New Orleans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how their actions and those of their descendants helped shape the food town we know today.
Justin A. Nystrom is an associate professor of history at Loyola University in New Orleans and the director of the Center for the Study of New Orleans.
ISBN: 978-0-8203-5355-5
6x9 Paperback
233 pages
Published 2018
Table of Contents, Index, B&W photographs