Appetite for Home: Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America

Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.

2013 / Anne Noyes Saini / TCF, USA

Olga Colon

Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.

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Anne Noyes Saini

When she is not editing economics books, Anne Noyes Saini covers food culture and immigration in New York City and has contributed to The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Narratively, WNYC-FM, WBUR-FM, and City Limits magazine.

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