Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
by
Louise DeSalvo
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother; Louise, meanwhile,...