97 Orchard

A “highly entertaining” culinary and social history of five immigrant families living in a turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City tenement house ( New York Times ). “A unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round.” —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World In ninety-seven Orchard , Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York’s Lower Ea