The United States has a rich history of immigrants. With each decade we can continue a culture of people born to immigrant parents. This article takes a back to an Italian American story. What I especially love about it is organic fusion various cultures bring to the table of their hyphenated American experience.- Crystal Johnson, MCCN Editor
Excerpt from Memories of Italian American Thanksgiving
The women would prepare every conceivable dish that would depict the tradition of Thanksgiving. Many of them had never fixed a turkey or made gravy for the turkey. Some of the dishes, like mashed potatoes and stuffing, would have Italian seasonings added such as Parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese and homemade Italian sausage. You can see my Mom’s Italian Style Turkey Stuffing Recipe.
The meal would start with Antipasto (Italian appetizer), which is a salad mixture of Italian salami, cheeses, ham, artichokes, mushrooms served with a vinaigrette dressing. Because some of the older men in the family missed their Italian meals, the women would even fix a pasta dish with meat sauce and meatballs and then we would start on “the turkey meal”.
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Depiction of Columbus Claiming Land Possession
After 29 days out of sight of land, on October 7, 1492, the crew spotted “[i]mmense flocks of birds”, some of which his sailors trapped and determined to be “field” birds (probably Eskimo curlews and American golden plovers). Columbus changed course to follow their flight.[24]
Land was sighted at 2 a.m. on October 12, by a sailor named Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodriguez Bermejo) aboard La Pinta.[25] Columbus would later assert that he had first seen the land and, thus, earned the reward of 10,000 maravedís.[26][27] Columbus called the island San Salvador, in present day the Bahamas or the Turks and Caicos, although the indigenous residents had already named it Guanahani. Exactly which island in the Bahamas or Turks and Caicos this corresponds to is an unresolved topic; prime candidates are Samana Cay, Plana Cays, Grand Turk, or San Salvador Island (named San Salvador in 1925 in the belief that it was Columbus’ San Salvador). READ MORE
Chef Kate Homes at Farmer's Market
Besides being a master chef, Kate Ferrara Homes knows thing or two about how make Italian food healthy. Run off to the farmer’s market if you can to gather your produce for this amazing recipe. Chef Kate recalls fondly gathering around the dinner table as a child growing up in an Italian family. One of the ways to set the tone for dinner is appetizing salad. Try this salad which burst with the flavors of Italy.
Ingredients
- 1 lg bunch kale- washed thoroughly and removed from stems
- 1T olive oil
- salt and pepper
- 6 white anchovies, rough chopped
- ¼ c grated parmesan
- juice of 1-2 lemons
- 1T Dijon mustard
- 1tsp chopped parsley
- ½ t salt
- fresh ground pepper
- 2T olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 pinch crushed red pepper
- 1 can canellini beans- drained
- 4 slices of crusty bread brushed with oil salt and pepper
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Categories: Healthy Living, Italian, Italian Culture and People, MCCN Hosts
Tags: Carried Away Catering, Chef Kate, Chef Kate Ferrara Homes, Chef Kate Homes, Grilled Kale Caesar Salad w/Canellini Beans Recipe, healthy recipes, Italian recipes, New York Chef's, salad recipes
19 – 20 February
26 February – 8 March
The Venice Carnival is the largest and most important Venetian festival, an appreciated cocktail of tradition, entertainment, history and transgression in a unique city, a festival that attracts thousands of people from around the world each year. The Carnival has very old origins. It is a festival that celebrates the passage from winter into spring, a time when seemingly anything is possible, including the illusion where the most humble of classes become the most powerful by wearing masks on their faces.
