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Marcella Hazan’s Secret Sauce: A Conversation With Filmmaker Peter Miller

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Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 | 639 views

Marcella film poster and Marcella Hazan in front of her cookbooks, image courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment

Marcella a documentary examining the life of Marcella Hazan will premiere in New York City on May 9. Image courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment

Marcella Hazan changed the way Americans cooked and thought about Italian cuisine. Now filmmaker Peter Miller has made a documentary about her life. We had a chance to speak to him about the making of the film, Marcella’s philosophy, and cooking Italian food.

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The History of the Giglio Festival

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Sunday, July 7th, 2024 | 3,844 views

The festival is religious in its nature and includes Catholic celebrations

Bishop Robert Brennan leads a precession in 2022

Since 1908, the Italian American community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has celebrated the Giglio festival.

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Lasagna for Thanksgiving? It’s more likely than you think.

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Sunday, November 19th, 2023 | 3,139 views

Lasagna, for Thanksgiving? You bet. A lasagna side by side with a freshly roasted turkey

Turkey is an iconic food of the Thanksgiving table. There are many ways of preparing turkey–roasted, fried, or stuffed with a duck and chicken come to mind–but for most people, their Thanksgiving meal becomes their own through the side dishes they serve.

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Q&A With Agata De Santis: New Short Film Looks at E Rossi & Company

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Monday, October 30th, 2023 | 2,865 views

E Rossi and company is the oldest souvenir shop in Little Italy

E Rossi Company is a souvenir shop in Little Italy, Manhattan, the oldest in the neighborhood


E. Rossi & Company is the oldest souvenir shop in Manhattan’s Little Italy. Over the last century its had three locations and faces an uncertain future. Filmmaker Agata De Santis has a new film celebrating the shop and the owner, Ernest Rossi. I spoke to her about the project screening this week at the Big Apple Film Festival.

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Poll Shows Difference Between Italian and Italian-American

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Thursday, February 10th, 2022 | 3,867 views

Italian Flag vs American Flag: Italian Food Are You Eating It Wrong?

The website YouGov released polling information from Italy and 16 other countries asking locals how acceptable or unacceptable various practices are surrounding Italian food consumption. Perhaps not surprisingly, the poll revealed many differences between Italian food traditions and those that are Italian-American.

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