The Lower East Side

At the library today, I grabbed "97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement".  From the introduction, "Though separated by time and national background, the Glockners, the Moores, the Gumpertzes, the Rogarshevskys, and the Baldizzis, were all players in the Age of Migration...97 Orchard chronicles what became of those immigrants, but from a special vantage point: it retells the immigrant story from the elemental perspective of the foods they ate."  Doesn't that sound interesting?