Category: Italian Heritage

Pasta with Rapini-Broccoli Rabe and Sausage alla Rizzuti

By Maria Rizzuti There are three things my family really loves to eat, Italian sausages, rapini- broccoli rabe and pasta.  These three things make for a very flavourful combination of spicy and savory. Today’s recipe incorporates all three of these…

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My Name is Giovanni and I am Italian!

By Renato Rizzuti Giovanni was a nice eight year old Italian boy. He loved playing ball hockey and video games. Giovanni felt that he was like all the other boys who were his friends yet he felt somehow different like…

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IL TRATTURO FOLCLORE D’ABRUZZO PESCARA

Pescara, gennaio 2011 Spett. “lL POSTINO” Direttore Angelo Filoso Ottawa   inviarLe una breve testimonianza della nostra terra, sicuramente viva nella Sua memoria L’Associazione Culturale “ll Tratturo Folclore d’Abruzzo” di Pescara, nell’ambito delle sue molteplici attivita ricreative, con l’impegno suI…

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Italian Cuisine Wasn’t Cooked Up in a Day

USA TODAY; By Don Oldenburg; Eating Italian will never be the same after reading John Mariani’s entertaining and savory gastronomical history of the cuisine of Italy and how it won over appetites worldwide. Doubt that? Mariani makes an exhaustively convincing case for…

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Fast Cars to Latin Lovers: Italy’s Top 15 Cultural Exports

1. Claudia Cardinale Some might say Loren, some Lollobrigida, some Bellucci, but of all the Italian screen goddesses who dominated postwar western cinema, it was Ms Cardinale who took the Garibaldi. Equally ravishing when tousled (The Professionals), or tightly coiffed (The Leopard), playing bosomy peasant…

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