Italian Fascism

Out of all the Italian cuisines nothing is more famous than Tortellini, with the exception of ravioli of course. Tortellini is considered the ambassador of Italian cuisine. The word tortellini comes from the Italian plural of tortellino, diminutive of tortello ‘small cake, fritter. The shape tortellini is often said to come from a legend. Legend has it that, a peeping Italian innkeeper, looking through a keyhole, spied the belly button of a bathing beauty, that inspired him to make tortellini.…

Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza a day or about 350 slices per second. Pizza is an interesting food choice all around the world. Pizza is amazing because the taste, smell and the texture makes it very good that we want more of it. Pizza has a very long history dating back to 600 B.C. there are many types of pizza in the world and many chefs focus on pizza to make it very unique. Pizza has been around for many years that some historians say it dates back to 600 B.C. When did it…

Competent Italian filmmaker, Matteo Garrone, who over the last few years has been giving us memorable films such as “Gomorrah” and “Reality”, hauls us into three Baroque tales from the 17th century, in which the real and unreal go hand in hand. The director, who exquisitely and efficaciously brings in mystical elements and dreamlike sequences, mixing them with the ethereal music by Alexandre Desplat, combines fulgurant medieval settings to host the odd stories, loosely adapted from the…

were neorealism and the new wave. Neorealism was not as original as historians once thought, but it did create a distinct approach to fictional filmmaking that had an enormous influence on cinema in other countries (FH 330). One of the most vivid Italian films to represent postwar suffering was Vittorio De Sica’s Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) in 1948. This story is of a worker whose livelihood depends on his bicycle shows the brutality of postwar life (FH 332). This film showed unique…

Italians have been a part of the scene in Philadelphia since colonial times. In 1665 a group of Waldensians (Italian protestants) came to New Sweden (New Castle Delaware) seeking religious asylum. Deleware and Philadelphia were all part of the same New Sweden. When the English took over Philadelphia, it is believed that many from the original group of 150 came to live in Philadelphia. William Penn had visited Italy and as a. Quakers he believed in freedom of religion. Later with the…

holiday season fast coming up on us, it behooves us to delve into the wonderful world of Italian holiday desserts. Few ethic groups exhibit such enchanting delights as do those of Italian ancestry at this time for year. Following, you'll sample, if only on a digital device, some of the most exquisite and well-known culinary samples from those with a discriminating taste from the world's best kitchens--the Italian home kitchen. Whether you're a college student away from home or a business…

Every time my family goes to my grandparents house, I’ll always see this little make-shift shack made out of ply-wood and crates and barrels. The crazy thing is that there’s always someone stopped and buying some homegrown authentic farm food. Makes me wonder what’s the difference between that and what we sell in the grocery store. Even these strangers know the difference between authentic and processed. Although book characters aren't the same as vegetables and pumpkins, they do have an obvious…

than people from other countries and even from other places in Italy. Human Environment Interactions- My parents being from a different part of Italy then most people means my views of Italian Culture are different and for HEI Sicily interacts differently than Italy too the environment. We eat a lot of Italian foods, so when we dispose all our leftovers usually they are greasy. But the key part of throwing away food is that we throw a lot of it away because we make food in big batches.…

Many people look through books as a gateway to another life they could live in or if it can be relatable to themselves. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s book, In Other Words, it is a memoir of her life in the struggle of what she goes through in learning the Italian language. While there are a few times in the book where Lahiri sounds depressed and belittles herself when struggling to learn a new language, she often reminds the reader of why she learns and perseveres through that challenge to reach her goal.…

Italian is also a member of the Romance group of the Indo-European language family. The Italian language is more similar to the Latin language than any other Romance language, which makes sense because Latin originated in Italy. Latin was just one of several Indo-European languages in Italy. As a group, these languages are sometimes referred to as the Italic languages. The other Italic languages include Faliscan, Osean, Umbrian, and Venetic. The Italian language derives mainly from Vulgar Latin,…