The rediscovery generation of Italian-America is the generation after we all melted in the pot. We are the generation trying to rediscover what was lost. We are still the same podcast with the same goals…..just a little more focused. We are just trying to keep traditions alive, dig a bit deeper into the meaning of these traditions and just share the abundance of Italian-American love. Just remember that even if you are 1% Italian-American you are still Italian.
On today's episode we have Ron Lemmo on talking about his father "Mr Festival: Vince Lemmo." Vince Lemmo is amongst several people within the Italian community of Stark county that helped create and initiate the very first Italian-American Festival in Stark County. Ron discusses what his father meant to the community and to his family on today's episode. This is episode 7 of season 2
22 Jul 2022
Going Home: Dear Grandma Frances
A journey home to my ancestral village of Vastogirardi, Italy.
2 May 2022
Interview with Ray Guarini from Italian Enclaves
Italian Enclaves can be found at : https://italianenclaves.org or on Facebook or Instagram at Italian Enclaves
26 Feb 2022
Talk to the living. Don’t talk to a tombstone.
Join Marion Mazzarella as she talks about growing up Italian American in Canton, Ohio, teaching and becoming the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America lodge #505’s first female President.
13 Feb 2022
Piano Piano
Amy Cenci grew up in Atlanta, Georgia to an Italian American Father and Croatian/Slovenia Mother. Little did she know that she would find herself living as an Italian aka Italian American with dual citizenship in Rome, Italy. She tells her story of challenges she has faced growing up Italian American in the south and her journey gaining dual citizenship to living and working in Rome.
23 Nov 2021
A Queen in the Kitchen: Ale Gambini
The purity and simplicity of food emanates through Ale Gambini’s work as an Italian food ambassador, chef, cookbook author, YouTube channel creator and so much more. Have a listen to her as she describes her work of promoting the Italian cuisine on the west coast.
16 Nov 2021
Mangia with Michele
Michele Di Pietro is a New York chef, food influencer, food blogger and recent cookbook author of Soupified. Enjoy a great flavor in the first episode of season 2. Grazie Mile
30 Oct 2021
The Gods and Goddesses of my family
This is dedicated to my Uncle Marc
24 Oct 2021
Beyond the Sea
As Italian Americans we fanaticize about the journey our ancestors took from the old country to America. Our stories reach beyond the seas and generations beyond that. I have been lucky enough to travel back and forth from Italy 12 times and have met some amazing people. Here is one interview of an outstanding soul that has about the same amount of passion as I do preserving the culture but is doing so in Italy. Have a listen! The website links are listed below for more detail
Several websites were mentioned in this broadcast:
http://www.vastogirardiefriends.it/
https://dantemanchester.org.uk/
24 Oct 2021
Cucina Romana by Andrew Cotto
"For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery"- D.H. Lawrence
The uniqueness of sitting around a table as an Italian American child and watching how the operatic style of Italian life play out before you pulls at my heart strings. I have had the unique opportunity to meet some amazing people in my life. It is even more unique of an Italian American girl from north east Ohio to get to interview someone just as interesting. I have played with writing a book many times however, being a doctor of pharmacy was a far greater calling. Having this as a passion and sharing what it means to be Italian-American with my listeners is far more fulfilling. Have a listen everyone. Message me if you want any websites for Andrew's articles or recipes he may have shared on this episode.
Grazie Mille.
Dottoressa Emma
30 Aug 2021
Gloria Talarico: Canton City's Resolute Italian
How do you want to be remembered when you are gone? What kind of legacy will you leave behind? Gloria Talarico is the epitome of what love means and to be loved by so many for the their hard work and dedication to the community. The legacy that her father left: work hard, learn and be the best student you can be and don't forget family has been the ethos of her very being. I can't even put into words what this lady means to me. Her hug is the hug of so many women that came before me. Her love is the love of my ancestors. Her example is the example of her father. I just wish I had more time to talk to her for this episode. I thank her and love her so much more....
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Gloria's father Archangelo Marchione, Gloria's father!
“When you lose someone, they take a bigger place in your heart, not a smaller one. Every day it grows, because you don't stop loving them. You wish you could talk to them. You need their advice. But life doesn't always give us what we need, and it's difficult.”
― Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker's Wife
16 Aug 2021
Music is a Language of Love: interview with singer Aaron Caruso.
Aaron Caruso is a classically trained singer of the Neapolitan language. Trained at Case Western University and earning his bachelors from the University of Michigan, Aaron's passion for expressing operetta style music in Neapolitan exudes through his music. He has played to a sold out crowd at Carnegie Hall and has played around the country. Listen as he gets back to his roots of the Stark County Italian American festival giving him one of his first breaks in the business.
19 Jul 2021
Biscoooottti part 2: my favorite nonnas.
Anna Sama is joined by her best friend Frances Pileggi to tell their shared story of leaving Sant’Andrea, Italy come to New York and later to Canton, Ohio.
20 May 2021
It is Biscooootti. Not Biscatti
Anna Sama sat down today to tell me about her story of coming to America. She hails from Sant'Andrea Dell'Apostolo. It is said that the town dates back to the 10th century, between 981 and 110. This was an era when the Greco-Byzantine population from the nearby Fiume Assi moved to the territory around Sant’Andrea to escape the repeated Saracen raids. At that time Sant’Andrea belonged to the Badolato farmstead. After 1044, the village was under Norman rule, as was the rest of Calabria, when it acquired a new status thanks to the Carthusian charterhouse, Grancia della Certosa di San Bruno, which became the centre of public life. A ‘Grancia’ is a building that forms part of a charterhouse, used for the preservation and provision of agricultural produce, which was to sustain of the monks of the order. In 1193, the Pope believed that the Carthusian monks were no longer living by their original moral values, but were guided by political and economic interests. For this reason, he handed it over to the Cistercian hermitage, Serra San Bruno ai Cistercensi, along with the ‘grancia’. It was under Cistercian ownership until 1513, when Pope Leone X of Medici reassigned the charterhouse to the Carthusians. They were to finally lose its profits to Joachim Murat, Marshal and Admiral to Napoleon, in 1808, when the San Bruno Charterhouse was abolished. Have a listen
27 Mar 2021
Interview with Dr Fioretti from Miami University.
Ohio has never been thought to have much Italian heritage. However, the
22 Feb 2021
Don't Cut the Basil: Five Generations of Authentic Italian Recipes
Cleveland, Ohio – Cugine in Cucina released their first cookbook, “Don’t Cut the Basil: Five Generations of Authentic Italian Recipes” in December 2020. During their digital launch weekend on Amazon, Cugine in Cucina’s cookbook went #1 Best Seller in four countries (the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom) for a total of 34 Best Seller categories and earned twelve #1 placements. Cugine in Cucina is made up of three cousins (Angela Siciliano, Corrina Siciliano, and Mary Kovach, Ph.D.) with Sicilian roots from Ohio, who share stories and photographs behind each of their Italian family recipes.
The three cousins reunited when Mary’s grandmother passed, and they started sharing food and recipes on a regular basis. With a desire not to lose what their grandmothers and mothers taught them over the years, they documented what they learned in the kitchen. This book shares more than just 25+ authentic Italian family recipes and mouthwatering pictures from traditional Italian sauce, to sides and appetizers, to desserts; it also captures their Italian spirit passed down from generations, as described in the stories behind each of the recipes.
15 Jan 2021
Saying Ciao a tutti
Hi everyone, this is just a quick hello to introduce this podcast. I hope to one day make it really official and actually interview people. However, this pandemic will force me to focus more historically on Italian Americans in North East Ohio. Send me ideas or recipes to share with everyone.
14 Jan 2021
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