Welcome to the Companion Website for Texas Tavola: Sicilian American Rituals of Food, Faith, and Family by Circe Sturm.
This engaging autoethnography travels through different stages of the author, Circe Sturm's, life-such as granddaughter, daughter, and migrant-to offer a window into Sicilian American women's lives across generations. At the heart of the book is a question: how and why has this elaborate Sicilian tradition survived and thrived in the most unlikely of places? Through intimate portraits of the women who keep it alive, Sturm reveals the deep wells of faith and cultural memory that bind this community across time and distance. Tracing the origins of the tradition back to several small towns in Western Sicily, Texas Tavola documents the faith traditions of an Italian American community about which little is known, offering a detailed portrayal of the profundity of their religious devotion, challenging assumptions about immigration and cultural loss, and delving into ethno-religious community life. An ideal text for anyone seeking to understand the lived experience of diaspora and cultural belonging.
This open-access Companion Website features an ethnographic film to accompany the text, with a runtime of 34 minutes and 30 seconds.
