Alma Igra is a historian of food and science in the twentieth century. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2020. Her grandfather was born in Bessarabia, her mother was born in Haifa, she was born in Jerusalem, and her son was born in New York.
Illustration by Maya Ish-Shalom
Chickens, from Bessarabia to New York City, provide a generational through-line in these four vignettes.Popol
Twenty-three years after my…