In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak with four-time Super Bowl champion Franco Harris. Harris began his professional football career when the Pittsburgh Steelers selected him in the first round of the 1972 National Football League Draft—the 13th player chosen overall. In his …
The serious business of your Italian name
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet, wrote Shakespeare, but I’m going to argue with Shakespeare here. As an Italian American from New York, I have enough bravado to do that. A powerful and enduring Southern-Italian tradition is the naming of children …
Summer’s gift: The jarring of tomatoes as ritual and tradition
“I have two things I care about - love and work. And to me they are very Italian and very enduring themes.” – Adriana Trigiani, The Italian American Podcast, Episode 7 And then late August comes, full of its heat and humidity, and we know it’s time to pull out the wide steel drums, the …