With Memorial Day having just passed, marking the unofficial start of summer, Anthony and I decided to share an excerpt from my memoir, The Dreams that Break Your Heart. This chapter is about a trip down the Shore in Jersey, which is a summer ritual familiar to countless East-Coast Italian …
Italian Sunday Dinner
IAP 12: Lidia Bastianich on cooking as connection to heritage, keeping a family together, and what never to do when cooking pasta
In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak with Lidia Bastianich, otherwise knows simply as Lidia, Emmy award-winning public television host of "Lidia's Kitchen," bestselling cookbook author, restauranteur, co-owner of the Italian marketplace Eataly, and purveyor of the …
The Italian-American gift: What we offer
“Many cultures have looked to the Italians to light the way in this regard: We seem to know how to hold each other close.” -Adriana Trigiani Food. Mangia. Cibo e vino. Pasta. Sauce. Meatballs. Bread. Mortadella. Mozzarella. Tiramisu. As Italian Americans, these things mean something …