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An ‘Edible History’ Of Immigrant Families

On Manhattan\'s Lower East Side, 97 Orchard Street is an old tenement building. It\'s now a museum. But in its life as an apartment building, it housed thousands of working class immigrants, each one with a story to tell. Now, some of those stories are being told through an exploration of the food they ate. Guy Raz speaks with Jane Ziegelman, author of 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement.
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June 8, 2010

From NPR.com:

On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, 97 Orchard Street is an old tenement building. It’s now a museum. But in its life as an apartment building, it housed thousands of working class immigrants, each one with a story to tell. Now, some of those stories are being told through an exploration of the food they ate. Guy Raz speaks with Jane Ziegelman, author of 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement.

Listen and/or read the transcript of the full story here at NPR.com.

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