Three Italies: How Sicilians, Neapolitans & Calabrians Shaped America

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  @MulberryStreetMemo · 1 month ago · pinned

  She never wrote any of it down. So I did. Three volumes, and a free one to start with. → <a href="http://mulberrystreetmemo.com/">mulberrystreetmemo.com</a>

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  @ErikaDarwish-un3hk · 2 months ago

  My family San Mango, Catanzaro &nbsp; Calabria 🫶🏼🌶️

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  @brucebasile5083 · 2 months ago

  My Nonna came to the far southside of Chicago from Calabria in 1896. We lived in a two flat apartment she owned. She and my Nonno owned a news paper stand. They saved money and bought a couple other apartments along with a gas station. She went to mass everyday at St. Anthony&apos;s, one of the first Catholic churches in Chicago. We all had a good life and grew up strong because of them.

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  @DanielMancuso-u5i · 2 months ago

  To me every Italian dish is my favorite

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  @MyPOTUS48 · 2 months ago

  My great grandfather was born in Antillo, Messina SICILY. He came to North America thru Canada, then settled in Brooklyn, then Buffalo. Our family surnames are GIGLIA and SMIROLDO. God bless everyone.

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  @angelinahunter182 · 2 months ago

  7/22/26: My Sicilian father was one of five siblings none of whom married Italian. I&apos;m guessing it was because they grew up in St. Albans Queens surrounded by non-Italians.<br>My mother was English and Irish and she hated to cook. But untrained and with no cookbooks and no TV cooking programs at the time in the 1950&apos;s I had a natural talent for cooking and wound up shouldering the responsibility of cooking for the family from the time I was 12.<br>The other skill which I discovered was in my DNA was lace repair. At 70 in 2016 I moved to a small city in Colorado where I became friends with a woman who owned a vintage clothing store. One day she showed me a black lace designer dress with so many holes in it that it was unsaleable. I looked at it and knew how to repair it -- how? Well, I read in a book called SEEKING SICILY by John Keahey that there were Sicilian lacemakers that the French came to buy in the mid 1800&apos;s and weird as it may seem, I knew how to repair that designer lace dress through my DNA. It took 5 hours but when I was finished you could not detect one repair and the dress sold the next day.

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  @unovecchio5958 · 2 months ago

  From Sicily, my dad and all of my grandparents: Pasta Con Sarde, the pasta dish of Palermo!

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  @FallenwoodFB · 2 months ago

  My family came from Napoli, both grand parents came from Italy in 1920.<br>I love all Italians &nbsp;and the food. It&apos;s been keeping me alive for 74 years now ; ))

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  @skyqueen1148 · 1 month ago

  Great content. &nbsp;Thank you.

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  @dianedapolito9869 · 2 months ago

  My family comes from Naples and Calabria.

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  @carmelashearn2307 · 2 months ago

  My Mom was born in Naples and my Dad&apos;s Mom &amp; Dad came from Naples My Mom could always make a great meal out of what ever she had. &nbsp;She was a great cook all her pasta was home made and she made bread every week. &nbsp;One of my cousins said My Aunt Lucy could make a table cloth taste good.

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  @NatkingRosa · 2 months ago

  It was a long 😪 and long time ago &nbsp;my family &nbsp;for me to be here in America 🇺🇸 ❤❤❤ it was very difficult to say &nbsp;good bye to friends and family members 😢😢😢thank you from the rosa family ❤❤❤❤God bless us all in this world 🌎 &nbsp;thank you for doing this on line great people in this world 🌎 ❤❤❤

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