Behind the scenes of Appetite for Home:
Find more from Anne Noyes Saini's ongoing audio project, Forgotten Foods of New York
Course 1: Foods from home lost to immigratio
(speakers, in order of appearance: Olga Colon, Nurys Ortiz, Nancy Soong) Course 2: Learning to cook and eat in America (speakers, in order of appearance: Olga Colon, Nancy Soong, Christina Lam) Course 3: Foods from home recreated in America (speaker: Nurys Ortiz) About the speakers: Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old. Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, was raised in Hong Kong and moved to NYC 60 years ago, after attending Vassar College. Photo of Olga Colon by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively. Music credit: "Home Again," by Michael Kiwanuka