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Reviewed for my virtual foodie book club. If you have an interest in history & food history, this look at a New York Tenement (now a museum) & 5 immigrant groups: Germans, Irish, German-Jews, Russian-Lithuanian Jews & Italians who settled there & the food culture they brought with them is interesting & absorbing. There are recipes & family stories intertwined. Link to the Lentil & Sausage Soup from the book I adapted (& made vegan) ⬇️in comments.

The finished Lentil Soup & the book that the recipe is from. I used vegan sausage & made a few other tweaks but left the recipe mostly the same. Hearty & good—it tastes better than it looks. I‘m only about 2/3 through the books so I‘ll be finishing it up this week for my book club.
Link to recipe is ⬇️

#QuotsyJul21

A #culinary quote from one of my current reads that I am finishing up for virtual foodie book club this month:

“…native-born Americans, wary of foreigners and their strange eating habits, pushed aside their culinary (and other) prejudices to sample these novel foods and eventually claim them as their own.”

#letstravelaugust #newyork

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a great museum to visit in New York City and they have an amazing book selection in their gift shop. These are just a couple of titles I've picked up the times I've visited.