"Social History is, most elementally, food history.
Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side Tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York\'s Immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round." -- Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World 97 Orchard is a richly detailed investigation of the lives and culinary habits--shopping,. "Social History is, most elementally, food history