Swiss Food and Foodways in Early Pennsylvania

Authors

William Woys Weaver

Keywords

immigration, Swiss Food, Swiss Settlements

Abstract

When the immigrants from Basel composed this song about corning to Pennsylvania in 1803, I do not think they realized --in spite of their enthusiasrn--what a very strange mixture of things they would find there a century and a half ago. Certainly, this was a major area of Swiss settlernent and in spite of the pressures of acculturation, there were many foods that the 1803 settlers would recognize from their homeland.

Recommended Citation

Weaver, William Woys (1980) "Swiss Food and Foodways in Early Pennsylvania," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 16: Iss. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol16/iss2/3