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I think I gained 10 pounds just watching this video 😊😊
The food was great...the pronunciations were poor.
The Sicilians and Italians really know how to eat yum this is making me hungry. I wished we had real Sicilian/Italian restaurants around here ugh.
I’m second generation Italian. My Nona food was the best! Papa had man gardens, we used catch little birds and Nona would cook them up. I would help Papa catch them and helped Nona I learned so much from them as a kid. Not like today. pluck them. I used to call them little chickens. They came here in 1910 from Italy, an arranged marriage. I loved them so much. I spent most of my childhood at their house in Detroit. I miss them. 😪 they both lived to be 98 years old with Papa going to Heaven first. I thank God for the opportunity to be raised in such a wonderful Family. ❤️🇺🇸
At every backyard barbecue, grilled hot dogs and burgers for the kids, and grilled salsiccia, peppers, (and red onions) for the adults!
The narrator screwed up so many words. 😂
I bought Saffron thread a few years ago and it was 20 bucks for 3 small vials. That shit is still expensive.
This is actually a great documentary.
This video accurately presents the food I grew up eating in the 1950’s and ‘60’s. I did not enjoy the constant references to “Mafia bosses”.; this was also the food of the common people. I’d like to see the producers of this video do another one, about the food of Sicilian immigrants, that could include some of this content but that also would talk about the cheaper foods such as the dandelions and burdocks we would eat every St. Joseph’s Day and the very inexpensive but delicious pasta dishes.
Those old Italian ladies were better cooks than 95% of the Michelin Chefs in Manhattan.
These are all traditional Italian foods and some served on special occasions by Italian families even today. These foods were not limited to the Mafia. While this compilation of foods in this video were designed around Mafia bosses, these foods were and still are part of the Italian culture where food is an integral part of living and all who enter a traditional Italian house are expected to eat and enjoy.😢
This takes me back to childhood my grandmother and her family were Sicilian and she was the best cook I ever knew... I love you Mema and Grandjoe and I can't wait to see you again ❤️❤️❤️✝️
I'm only 2nd generation Sicilian American and my Nonna's Sunday gravy is the best.
Your "narrator" butchered all of the names. Do you clowns NOT proofread the phonetics your robots utter? FFS
Saffron is forever going to be expensive. You have to hand harvest it.
Awesome Vid on 1920's/30's food history
I had a friend who had his Sicilian grandfather's sauce, and I remember it being complex and spicy, my first exposure to real Sicilian/Italian flavors.
We never used the word gravy. It was always called the sauce!
I was lucky I had an Italian mother and grandmother. I had to tell guests that the antipasto was not the main meal. They had to save their appetite. I was once asked what mom put in her lasagna. I said, "Name it."
5 cents for a two-pound loaf of bread. Damn…