Egg Cream

Three simple ingredients and thousands of years of history

Egg Cream — Plot

A short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor cream—it was a product of necessity and hardship, but a source of joy and sweetness. Through a tour of egg cream establishments led by a filmmaker and his young daughter, exhaustively researched archival imagery (and an eponymous song by Lou Reed!), EGG CREAM examines the Jewish experience in America and the mythology of a simpler time.

• Release date
• September 15, 2018
• Runtime
• 16 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Peter Miller