Hailing from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Rossella Rago has become a household name for Italian Americans by popularizing authentic Italian cuisine. She is best known for cooking alongside her maternal grandmother, Nonna Romana. Rossella’s love of food, family and entertainment was her inspiration to launch the show, Cooking with Nonna.
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It’s been 56 years since iconic Italian American crooner Dean Martin released The Dean Martin Christmas Album. Since then, Martin’s music has become as synonymous with the holiday season as Christmas trees and presents. It’s the gold standard to which all other Christmas albums are compared. Never once has it been surpassed.
There is one way to have Italy at your fingertips no matter where you are – food, of course. The diversity in Italian cuisine is exciting, captivating and will always keep you coming back for more. If you can’t jump on a plane to Rome or Naples at a moment’s notice to soak up the insatiable flavors of Italy, you can enjoy them at home.
With 4.2 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, Nadia Caterina Munno, perhaps better known as the internet’s beloved Pasta Queen, is a viral Italian sensation. In 2020, at the height of the global COVID-19 induced lockdowns, she captured the hearts, and stomachs, of millions of viewers through her mouthwatering, easy-to-follow pasta recipes, eccentric Italian flair and signature catchphrase – “ I am pasta, I am drama, I am Italiana.”
Italy is known for being the birthplace of some of the most revered classic writers of all time – including Dante and Niccolò Machiavelli. However, Italy’s literary acclaim is not something of the country’s past. There is no shortage of contemporary Italian writers making their mark on history at home and abroad.
The golden age of Italian horror cinema was brief but revolutionary. The era is marked by giallo, (meaning yellow in English), a genre that encapsulated truly perverse, gory, and erotic themes that often pushed the envelope. This style developed in the mid-to-late 1960s and peaked in popularity in the 1970s. The term “giallo” was given to this era of cinema because the pages of popular 1950s psychological crime and thriller novels, whose plots became the backbone of Italian horror movies, were colored yellow.
Born on October 15th, 1920, Mario Puzo was an author, screenwriter, and journalist. He’s best known for writing crime novels about Italian American mobsters and the Sicilian Mafia. His most notable novel “The Godfather,” published in 1969, was adapted into the Francis Ford Coppola trilogy of the same name. Puzo’s parents were Italian Immigrants from Pietradefusi, a
Halloween is not celebrated in Italy as it is in the United States. The holiday is marked in the country and around Europe as Tutti I Santi, or All Saints Day, a Christian celebration that honors those who entered heaven as saints. However, the idea of Halloween is popular in the country, with supermarkets selling pumpkins and spooky decorations and bars and nightclubs hosting Halloween nights to mimic the ambiance found in the United States. Some markets and museums will also hold events for children to allow them to partake in dolcetto o scherzetto (trick or treating.)
Everyone uses Instagram these days. Whether you’re a social media influencer or just a casual user, the popular social media app has something for everyone. The app caters to all sorts of users and interests. For the Italian American community, you will find comedians, chefs, and other personalities.
Discovering new music has never been easier thanks to Spotify. With curated playlists like “Top Songs – Global” and “Top Songs – US”, we can easily plug into what everyone else is listening to. While American artists often dominate these charts, Italian artists enjoy competitive streaming on Spotify, too. Meanwhile, evergreen artists like Andrea Boccelli and Luciano Pavoratti attract millions of monthly listeners on the platform.
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