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Nonna Concettina and the Ballad of the Pans

B. Amore

Naples, 1963: ... She banged the cover against the pan, beat it like a drum, rolled the spoon around inside ... Nonna explained that in Italy this is what you did at midnight to...

Summer Reading, Italian-American Style?

Marisa Iallonardo

In search of a great, modern-day Italian-American book ...

BOOKS. Da Vinci’s Kitchen

Natasha Lardera

Da Vinci’s Kitchen: A Secret History of Italian Cuisine (BenBella Books, January 2007) by Dave Dewitt, bestselling author of several cookbooks, takes a fresh approach do the...

An Italian/American State of Mind

Anthony J. Tamburri

In launching i-Italy, we shall inevitably re-consider our own individual positions within the Italian/American community. ...

Making Italians All Over Again

Robert Viscusi

When the Risorgimento finally succeeded in joining the many parts of Italy into a single nation, Massimo D’Azeglio remarked, “We have made Italy, now we must make Italians.”

The Art of Gesture

Natasha Lardera

Americans find the Italian language to be the tongue of love, rich with sweet-sounding words that are almost melodic. But Italians are known for another idiom that they speak;...

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