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Penne alla Vodka Sauce Recipe
If you’ve ever wondered how Vodka Sauce came to be, here is the answer. Vodka is a distilled creation perfected in Russia and handed down through the generations, and the various classic tomato sauces are the domain of the Italian peninsula and surrounding regions – so how did the two…
A Letter to the Public about the World War 2 Internments
Welcome Readers – The inspiration for this website came to me in the winter of 2019, when my daughter was writing an essay for her US History 2 class in high school. The subject matter was the World War 2 internments of enemy aliens in the United States during World…
Learn to Speak Italian and Reconnect with a Lost Part of Culture
I’m on a quest to learn to speak Italian, which has not an easy task. It seems harder for me to learn a new language now that I am in my late fifties. In high school I took Latin, and I easily soaked it up. I still recall so much…
Potentially Dangerous Film – Official Trailer for the Feature Length Documentary
The Il Ponte Film Group presents the Potentially Dangerous film, a feature length documentary on the Internments of Italians in America during World War 2. Potentially Dangerous focuses on a period of time during World War II when the U.S Government restricted the rights and freedoms of 600,000 Italian residents…
Escarole and Beans Recipe – A One-Pot Meal
My Mother’s family came from the Naples area of Italy, so many of the wonderful dishes that we enjoyed as a family were seafood based, specifically shellfish. My Father’s side of the family came from Morrone del Sannio, a hamlet in the Province of Campobasso in the Italian region Molise…
