Irish-American Foodways

Diaspora

A distinct American community cuisine. Corned beef and cabbage is an Irish-American tradition rather than an Irish one.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Irish-American community documented

What is recorded

  • Corned beef and cabbage is documented as an Irish-American tradition formed by immigrant access to cured beef, not as a dish carried from Ireland. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Immigrant Foodways in New England documented

    Famine migration into Boston from the 1840s; corned beef and cabbage is an American-Irish dish rather than an Irish one.

Dishes

Recipes

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