It is with great pleasure that we share on our website an article written by Richard Leto about his 30-year long journey to uncover his Italian family roots. Many thanks to Richard for allowing us to share the link to this very interesting article. https://orderisda.org/culture/la-nostra-voce/the-30-year-journey-that-led-to-my-italian-family-roots/
A few months ago our friend and collaborator Mary Kovach published, together with her cousins Corrina and Angela Siciliano the cook book “Don’t Cut the Basil” full of great Italian recipes. The book had an amazing success, and here are the links to some interviews with the three “cugine in cucina”. Enjoy! https://www.bingenetworks.tv/media/bookish-bookish-bookish-meet-the-authors-cugine-in-cucina-375486 https://clarissaburt.com/in-the-limelight-with-clarissa-summer-2021-issue/ [pp.20-21]…
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It is our pleasure to share the link of an interview that our collaborator Mary Kovach had with the renowned Italian American author Lisa Scottoline. Thank you Mary for sharing the link! https://www.italyusa.org/2021/05/sitting-down-with-renowned-italian.html
We are happy to share the link to the interview that Mary Kovach had with Robert Ferrito, National President of the Order of Sons and Daughters of Italy in America regarding the controversy on Cristoforo Colombo https://www.italyusa.org/2021/06/cancel-culture-vs-christopher-columbus.html
A statue in honor of Rocky Colavito, a sport legend in Cleveland, has been unveiled in Tony Brush Park in Cleveland’s Little Italy and Rocky himself participated in the ceremony. Please follow this link to read the article: https://www.wetheitalians.com/single_post/rocky-colavito-returns-statue-unveiling-i-am-thankful-god-chose-me-play-cleveland
We are happy to share the link to Mary Kovach’s interview to Ryan Fisher, Editor In Chief of “Italian America”! Thank you, Mary, for your great work! interview https://www.italyusa.org/2021/07/grateful-grandson-editor-in-chief-miles.html
Great news! Our friend and contributor Dr. Mary Kovach has joined the Limelight network with her show: “Rockstar Manager”! We are very proud and happy to share the news published on ITALYUSA.org. Congratulations, Dr. K! link: https://www.italyusa.org/2021/06/rockstar-manager-show-joins-in.html
We are pleased to announce the creation of a new podcast on Italian American culture, the “Ben V. Marconi Lodge: Order of Sons and Daughters of Italy in America”, available on Google Podcasts. We spoke with the creator of the podcast, Emma K. Coleman, and this is what she said to us. Enjoy! Emma, thank…
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Emma Coleman’s great grandparents (“Bisnonni”) Camillo DiSerio and Camella Amicone with their first and second sons Giovanni and Antonio. This is the first professional photo that they took in America. A picture of the DiSerio Family in Roswell. Camillo DiSerio and Camella Amicone had 12 children but only 9 appear in the picture, because two…
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We are happy to share the news: the cookbook “Don’t Cut The Basil” has been reviewed by several Italian websites (mostly in Sicily) as a book that promotes Sicilian cuisine un the U.S. Many congratulations to Mary, Angela and Corrina! Three Sicilian Cousins, tre cugine siculo-americane dell’Ohio promuovono la cucina siciliana negli USA https://www.siciliafan.it/dont-cut-the-basil-libro/amp/ Il…
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