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Posts tagged with Italian-Americans
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Spagnapasseri - a Calabrese scarecrow
2020-09-29 15:05:41 UTCA spagnapasseri - a system to literally, in Calabrese dialect, “scare sparrows” - and other birds -off the fig trees in my aunt’s backyard in Long Island. Now is the time for figs to ripen, and the sparrows can’t stay away; following them, into the broken skin of the fruit,…
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Come si fa i pittuli
2020-08-05 15:27:12 UTC“I just want to show my granddaughter how to make pittuli, ok?” my mother said. “I want to be with Julia [the granddaughter], my daughter [me], my sisters [Carmela and Crair] and that’s it. When the men are around it’s too difficult.” My cousin Paul was allowed to stay,…
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Tomie dePaola
2020-03-31 12:23:03 UTCTomie dePaola, the author of the children’s book Strega Nona and many others, died on March 30 at the age of 85. As a child, his were the only books that reflected my bittersweet experience of sharing a home with a nonna, an Italian grandmother. In our case, that …