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Resilient Kitchens is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. It includes a vibrant mix of perspectives from food writers, restaurateurs, scholars, and activists, accompanied by delicious recipes, gorgeous photography and hand-drawn illustrations.
Sommario
Preface
1 The Lost Year
Reem Kassis
Recipe: Malfoof (Stuffed Cabbage Rolls)
2 Quarantine Cooking in an Improvised Household
Stephanie Jolly and Krishnendu Ray
Recipe: Pasta with Shallots and White Wine
3 Duck Tales
Tien Nguyen
Recipe: Cà Phê S¿a ¿á (Iced Coffee with Condensed Milk)
4 Cooking with the Lights Off
Bonnie Frumkin Morales
Recipe: Mom’s Chicken Kotleti
5 The Meaning of Martin Yan
Mayukh Sen
Recipe: Martin Yan’s Hot Walnut Soup
6 Pound Cake and Puri
Geetika Agrawal and Fernay McPherson
Recipes: Sour Cream Pound Cake and Puri
7 Teta Thursdays: Conversations on Food, Culture, and Identity during a Global Pandemic
Antonio Tahhan
Recipe: Kousa Mahshi (Aleppan-Style Stuffed Squash)
8 The Map to Myself
Sangeeta Lakhani
Recipe: Murgh Makhani (Butter Chicken)
9 There Will Always Be a Sea
written by Keenan Dava, recipe by Tim Flores
Recipe: Kasama Chicken Adobo
10 Food and Caring during the Times of COVID-19 on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri
Recipe: Red Chilaquiles
11 Intimate Tables: Food and Migration in a Time of Crisis
Philip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan
Recipes: Hefezopf / Tsoureki (German-Greek Bread)
and Almond, Lemon, and Ricotta Cake for Passover
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Art Credits
Index
Info autore
PHILIP GLEISSNER is an assistant professor of Slavic and East European languages and cultures at The Ohio State University. A native of Germany, he came to the United States for graduate studies at Princeton. He researches the Soviet literary press, socialist cultural networks, and queer community building in contemporary Eastern Europe.
HARRY ELI KASHDAN is a scholar of food and migration based in Washington, DC. A Ph.D. in comparative literature who has published research on cookbooks and migration in the Mediterranean, he has held fellowships at Harvard University, The Ohio State University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Riassunto
Resilient Kitchens is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. It includes a vibrant mix of perspectives from food writers, restaurateurs, scholars, and activists, accompanied by delicious recipes, gorgeous photography and hand-drawn illustrations.
