laporcupina:Pizza comes to NYC in 1944.More accurately, “The NY Times introduces its readers to pizz
laporcupina:Pizza comes to NYC in 1944.More accurately, “The NY Times introduces its readers to pizza some 40 years after the first pizzeria opens.” I feel like there’s an interesting essay in this about cultural assimilation, cultural respectability, and when an immigrant group reaches the turning point from “those dirty [insert relevant ethnic slur]” to “y’know, their food isn’t half bad,” and then it’s some newer immigrant group’s turn on the bottom of the pile. -- source link
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