Almost Italian- Thanksgiving Message

Holly Chase and Skip Lombardi of Almost Italian are asking readers to do a bit of culinary sleuthing. Click on the link to their online cookbook and send them your comments and stories.

I’d love to hear stories and speculation on this from other Italian-Americans. Alas, I’ve no one left in my own family to interview.

It’s easy enough to ascertain how certain traditional Italian recipes morphed into Italian-American dishes; that’s what the Almost Italian project is about. But how did the original recipes arrive intact? We need to ask how they made the trip from Italy to America in the first place, especially since we already know that many of the immigrants were so poor in Italy they couldn’t have afforded to cook them back home.