Today we visited the Tenament Museum and saw the 1880 recreation of Jewish tenament, the 1920's tenaments of an Irish and of an Italian family. Each apartment was about 350 square feet and often would hold families of 10.
1870- One third of all money made in Ireland came from servant Irish girls.
1855-1865- 2.5 million Irish left Ireland.
3 out of 4 Irish immigrants were women and 3 out of 4 immigrants from Italy were men.
Some questions we discussed and reflected on:
What is the relationship between food and class?
Between gender and food?
Between relgion and food?
And ethnicity and food?
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