Jane Ziegelman, Smithsonian, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-0612-8850-0
Ziegelman (Foie Gras: A Passion) puts a historical spin to the notion that you are what you eat by looking at five immigrant families from what she calls the "elemental perspective of the foods they ate." They are German, Italian, Irish, and Jewish (
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Jane Ziegelman. St. Martin’s, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-28433-4
In this bittersweet account, culinary historian Ziegelman (A Square Meal) introduces readers to a remarkable but little-known artifact of the Jewish diaspora: yizkor books, or memory books. When the author was growing up in 1980s Queens, family...
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Andrew Coe and Jane Ziegelman. HarperCollins, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-221641-0
This absorbing history explores what American’s ate—and, even more, didn’t eat—during the Great Depression, an economic upheaval that devastated agriculture and food budgets. Husband-and-wife food historians Coe (Chop Suey) and Ziegelman (97 Orchard)
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