HUNGRY FOR LOVE: A Conversation about Food, Cinema & Amore!
Christmas is around the corner, the Holidays are here! What better time to sit down and talk food, cinema and amore with two of my dearest friends, award winning filmmakers and big time foodies, Justin Ambrosino, and Soojin Chung.
Friar Francis. The Founder of Italian Literary Tradition
What makes Friar Francis so Italian is that he is the author of the first poem in the Italian language: The Canticle of Creatures. And for a nation that for about six centuries was only unified by its literature, beingthe founder of its poetic tradition is quite a big deal.
A Language of Acceptance
In order for Italian Americans to tackle head-on the discourse of race and ethnicity we should abandon the implicitly exclusionary term “tolerance,” which implies something distasteful, if not outright negative. We should embrace instead the more inclusive term “acceptance,” which underscores assent of a condition or situation—in this case, someone’s difference (e.g., race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality)—without attempting to disapprove or modify it.
November 25, 2014
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L'Italia al tempo di Capaci
Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino
Quando avevo vent'anni di Ettore de Lorenzo, giornalista Rai
Santa Severina in Calabria. Creare lavoro con la cultura
Da un comune calabrese un esempio di come si possono e si debbono sfruttare le straordinarie risorse del passato, per uscire dalla crisi e per costruire un futuro migliore
November 24, 2014
HUNGRY FOR LOVE: A Conversation about Food, Cinema & Amore!
HUNGRY FOR LOVE Kickstarter Campaign Video
It’s almost Thanksgiving, Christmas is around the corner, the Holidays are here! What better time to sit down and talk food, cinema and amore with two of my dearest friends, award winning filmmakers and big time foodies, Justin Ambrosino, and Soojin Chung.
Low Turnout, High League Vote Mark Regional Elections
It was night in Rome’s down-market suburb of Infernetto, and to show that immigrants are unwelcome there, rightwingers fashioned gruesome mannequins clothed all in white, and hanged them from bridge rafters over a main road. This was a local protest, but the wave of anti-immigrant feeling shows signs of penetrating into the wider population, with fallout in this weekend’s regional vote in Emilia-Romagna and Calabria
Verrazzano and the Discovery of Staten Island
Given that we are currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of a misspelled bridge I thought an excerpt from my book, "The Staten Island Italian American Experience," briefly telling how Staten Island came to be first sighted by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 and how six years later he was consumed in the Caribbean might be of interest.
November 22, 2014
Verrazano and the Discovery of Staten Island
Jerry Krase
Sailing the Inner New York Bay today.
Given that we are currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of a misspelled bridge I thought an excerpt from my book, "The Staten Island Italian American Experience," briefly telling how Staten Island came to be first sighted by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 and how six years later he was consumed in the Caribbean might be of interest.
November 22, 2014
Brancati’s “Don Giovanni in Sicily ” … Surely No Greater Contempt for Sicily … Plato: “Beware the Poets and Tragedians”
Top: "American Girl in Italy" (Florence); Bottom Rt.: Poster for 1967 movie version of Brancati's book
The relentless theme of this blog is the profound irony that in the country with near seventeen million southern-Italian Americans there are no dedicated university Patria Meridionale major or minor curriculums. While, there are scores of northern-Italian and post-Ellis Island history and culture curriculums, the history and culture of southern-Italian Americans going back near three thousand years south of Rome is conscientiously and systematically ignored by the Italian American literati (aka teachers).
The Canticle of Creature in NYC
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Gusto. An Encyclopedia of Italian Cuisine
A beautiful book equally at home on the countertop and the coffee table, a rare gem first published in Italy in 2011 that has now been translated into English with a foreword by renowned Chef and Culinary Educator Cesare Casella.
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