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The Foundation of a Nation - America is built by immigrants
A ten-minute drive through Hazleton, Pa., reveals as much about the history of immigration as it does the gastronomical tastes of a changing population, with menus boasting pierogies and pizza alongside eateries dishing up tamales and tostones.
Like polka dots on an all-white background, Hispanic businesses like La Mexican Grocery and Crystal Barbeque compete along the same pockmarked thoroughfares as town staples like Vesuvio Pizzeria and Jimmy’s Quick Lunch, where a dish of kraut and mash sells for $4.60.
“This is the land of opportunity. We all come for the same thing,” says Vesuvio co-owner Sofia Renaud, who immigrated to the former coal town from Italy with her parents 33 years ago. Today, the North Wyoming Street pizzeria sits in a largely Hispanic neighborhood once dominated by Italian, Polish and German-owned businesses.
“My mother used to say, ‘You never forget where you come from, but you have to pick up the traditions and values of your adopted country,’ ” says Renaud. ...