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The Last Supper (No, Not That One)

Al DeLuise | Posted 01.26.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Italian Food, Holidays, Italian-Americans, Holiday Dinners, Italian-American, Italian, Family Holidays, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Traditions, Fifty News
Al DeLuise

I was an adopted loaf of white bread in a family of exquisite pastries.

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Coffee Corretto

Rosie DeQuattro | Posted 02.22.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Christmas Memories, Italian-American, 1950's, Christmas Morning, Maxwell House Coffee, Sambuca, Fifty News
Rosie DeQuattro

A sense-memory of Christmas as a kid hit me full-on this morning. It's Christmas morning and I'm an 11-year old, hanging around the catastrophe of discarded Christmas paper in the living room and taking it all in.

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WATCH: Fight On State Assembly Floor Over 'Sopranos'

Posted 08.16.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Donald Wagner, Warren Furutani, Italian American, Tony Soprano, Assembly Floor, Mafia, Tony Soprano Comment, San Francisco Chronicle, Anthony Portantino, Video, Los Angeles News

Life imitated art on the Assembly floor Wednesday when Assemblyman Don Wagner (R-Irvine) compared line items in the Democrats' budget plan to somethin...

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"Baseball Is America" -- An Interview With Lawrence Baldassaro About Baseball and the Italian-American Experience

Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Read More: Lawrence Baldassaro, Joe DiMaggio, Baseball, Italian-American, Beyond Dimaggio, Sports News
Lia Petridis Maiello

With his latest book, Beyond DiMaggio, Lawrence Baldassaro offers a profound analysis on how baseball links to the Italian-American experience.

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