A Family that Eats Together: Food in Italian American History and Culture

A Family that Eats Together: Food in Italian American History and Culture

Wednesday, March 16, 5:00- 7:00 pm

University of Toronto Scarborough

IC 220

 

Professor Simone Cinotto

Associate Professor of Modern History

University of Gastronomic Sciences

Pollenzo, Italy

Professor Cinotto is a historian with an expertise in U.S. history, migration history and foodways, and consumption.  Some of his publications include The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (University of Illinois Press, 2013), Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California (New York University Press, 2012), and Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities (Fordham University Press, 2014).

Professor Cinotto’s talk is part of a 2016 Connaught Cross-Divisional/Cross-Cultural Seminar “City Food: Lessons from People on the Move.