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Italian Holiday Gift Guide –Part 1

It’s that time of year again and you don’t know what to buy Uncle Frank or Zia Francesca?? Don’t get your mutande all in a bunch,Italyville has you covered with a few ideas to help make your Italian relatives happier than your Nonno working in the garden!

1- My Calabria:  Rosetta Costantino has [...]

Cooking with Sopressata - Spaghetti alla CarbonaraCooking with Sopressata –Spaghetti alla Carbonara

Do you ever have those days where you think:What are we going to cook for dinner?  You need to go grocery shopping,you didn’t take anything out of the freezer and you really don’t want to make anything that takes too much effort.  Spaghetti alla Carbonara is the perfect dish for such an [...]

Salumi Calabresi - Italian Cured MeatsSalumi Calabresi –Italian Cured Meats

It was a full day of making soppressata,salsiccia and capocollo on Saturday.  It was a regular salumificio around here!  Add to that my mamma’s cooking,  a little homemade wine and quattro chiacchiare and it equals a good time! In about a month,we’ll be able to taste the fruits of our labor.

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Sopressata

I’ve made lots of friends through sopressata…I really have.  My father has been offered money,a friend wants to feature it in a future restaurant he is opening and one of my Irish buddies has somehow gotten “in”and now chips in financially and helps make them in order to get a share…[...]

Day of the Pig

If you ever get the chance to experience “the day of the pig”in Italy (mostly southern Italy),I would highly recommend it. It’s not officially called “the day of the pig,”I actually just made that up but many Southern Italian families,my nonni and zii included,will raise a pig each year [...]

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