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Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.)

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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 within the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s. Every chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and have an effect on on New Orleans. Sicilian immigrants cut sugarcane, sold groceries, ran truck farms, operated bars and restaurants, and manufactured pasta. Citing these cultural confluences, Nystrom posits that the significance of Sicilian influence on New Orleans foodways traditionally has been undervalued and as a substitute must be included, along side African, French, and Spanish cuisine, within the broad definition of “creole.”

Creole Italian chronicles how the business of food, broadly conceived, dictated the reasoning, means, and outcomes for a big portion of the nearly forty thousand Sicilian immigrants who entered The united states through the port of New Orleans within the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and how their actions and those of their descendants assisted in shaping the food town we know as of late.

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