Joey’s such a bad boy. He doesn’t care about anything but his sick hair spikes.

#jollybiscuit #jerseyshore #realitytv #spraytan #drama #gossip #rumors #hottub #italianamerican #humor #funny #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #comicstrip

Over at America Domani I wrote about the history of spiedini, Italian kebabs.

#history #foodhistory #italianamerican #spiedini

https://americadomani.com/spiedini-the-italian-kebab/

At the Public Reading Club podcast, I talk about Italian American food with Matt Caputo.

#italian #italianAmerican #vealparmigiana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSonmea29pI&list=PLqFXWO9AKXT0UqCrP3O9FOgDXo9ujmwKH&index=4

If you like my #food #history articles, you might like my book Red Sauce, about #ItalianAmerican food— and today there is free shipping at Bookshop.org https://bookshop.org/p/books/red-sauce-how-italian-food-became-american-ian-macallen/17434222?ean=9781538162347

This 1955 jukebox hit sung by #ConnieFrancis "Scapricciatiello" ("Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me") is lip-synched here by #KateWinslet in this raunchy but charming slice of NYC #ItalianAmerican sex and courtship. #JamesGandolfini is Kate's love object. Listen / download song here: https://bit.ly/conniefrancis1 View movie here: https://bit.ly/turturro1

This 1955 jukebox hit sung by #ConnieFrancis "Scapricciatiello" ("Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me") is lip-synched here by #KateWinslet in this raunchy but charming slice of NYC #ItalianAmerican sex and courtship. #JamesGandolfini is Kate's love object. Listen / download song here: https://bit.ly/conniefrancis1 View movie here: https://bit.ly/turturro1

Hahahaha PAST me. Keeping that typo though. #ItalianAmerican

Hahahaha PAST me. Keeping that typo though. #ItalianAmerican

Hahahaha PAST me. Keeping that typo thoug. #ItalianAmerican

The main thing I've been working on this year has been selling my book "Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American," and in a few weeks it moves to the backlist so here I am begging everyone to buy a copy before we come to the end.

#book #books #food #foodhistory #italianamerican

http://book.redsauceamerica.com/

Connecticut board approves Italian-American monument to replace Columbus statue that was removed in 2020

#ItalianAmerican #ColumbusStatue #NewHaven
https://www.foxnews.com/us/connecticut-board-approves-italian-american-monument-replace-columbus-statue-removed-2020

What has #genealogy and #DNA done to enrich your lives and possibly change your view of the world around you? When I began my family tree, my #DutchAmerican ancestry was easy. Mom’s #ItalianAmerican ancestry was difficult, few in Mom’s family wanted to talk about their history. Inquiries were met with suspicion. In 2013, I asked Mom to take a dna test. That kit is still spilling family secrets. It has brought me to 2 rabbis, many books on the Inquisition, an Introduction to #Judaism course.

There is an excerpt from my book RED SAUCE: HOW ITALIAN FOOD BECAME AMERICAN over at America Domani. Do you love meatballs? This is the piece for you.
https://americadomani.com/food-wine/power-ballin/

#meatballs #excerpt #book #foodhistory #italianamerican

My sister made Italian wedding soup and gave me some for dinner. It was delicious.

#Soup #SoupSeason #ItalianAmerican

A few of my favorite things

#food #foodways #CulinaryArts
#sociology #anthropology #history #archiving #research
#grassroots #activism #writing #blogging #WordPress
#poetry #folklore #photography
#community
#LGBTQ
#SanJose #SiliconValley #SFBA #California
#urbanism #modernism #PoliticalEconomy
#business #development #distribution
#Environment #PublicSafety #Care #Preservation
#GenX #counterculture
#Italia #ItalianAmerican #CucinaItaliana
#LeCordonBleu
#Gardening #dogs
#Sprezzatura

Over at America Domani I wrote about Italian American Pepper and Egg sandwiches.

https://americadomani.com/food-wine/the-mystery-of-the-italian-pepper-and-eggs-sandwich/

#peppers #eggs #pepperandegg #italianhero #italiansub #sandwiches #italianamerican #food #italianfood

About two years ago, I joined an #ItalianAmerican FB group.

I had recently moved back to my region of birth from somewhere with a much smaller proportion of Italian-Americans, and I was eager to reconnect with the culture I had grown up immersed in. And I enjoyed this group at first--I remember sharing pictures and comments when I made arancini for the first time that Christmas. But it quickly became apparent that I didn't belong.

For one thing, the rest of the group was significantly older than me--nothing wrong with that of course, but it was a bit uncomfortable. The group was also focused mostly on food, and I wanted to connect on a deeper level--again, not an issue by itself. However, the real problem was that the group was extremely right-wing.

They were almost all vocally pro-Trump and Christian nationalists, and most of the feed was Trumpist and Christian nationalist shouting that had nothing to do with the topic. Having left Christianity at a young age, this was especially off-putting. They were racist in so many ways. The last straw was when one of them called for landmines to be planted at the Southern border, and nobody else challenged them.

Before I left, I tried to spread a better message, but I was harassed for it. The truth is, our culture would not exist without the contributions of Africans, Arabs, Greeks, Jews, Roma, and countless others who lived in what is now Italy across the millennia. When our ancestors first came to the United States, they weren't considered "white", and their resistance to the ethnic oppression of the time was a significant part of the late-19th/early-20th century anarchist movement in America. But the generations after them traded their culture, and their solidarity with other oppressed racial and ethnic groups, for proximity to whiteness and the privilege it confers. In Italy itself, imperial aggression against North and East Africa, and the Fascist persecution of foreigners, Jews, and Roma, continue to go without acknowledgement today, as African migrants are turned away and a new generation of fascists takes power. These are the legacies we have inherited, and it is up to us to make better, healing choices.

Soon after this occurred, I joined a specifically anti-fascist Italian-American FB group, created to address these problems. I'm finding much better community over there. Ironically, the whole experience brought me even closer to my culture, and now I have a starting point for thinking about our future. I hope to have children someday, and I hope to pass on a more inclusive understanding of our culture. But no one person can define the entire community's path forward--it needs to be a collective effort.

#Introduction Hello, my name is Jack and my pronouns are He/They. I'm an astronomy student, activist, and storyteller from the upstate NY area, in my mid-20s. My first language is English, but I also read and write Spanish fairly well, and I know some ASL, too. I came over from the birdsite after Lex Luthor bought it, although I don't plan on deleting my account there.

My goal here is to work towards a free and fulfilling life for all beings, at home together in the universe. The hashtags below are the kinds of things I'll probably post about. Some of those things are identities of mine, some are political ideologies and some are interests or things I do. If those are the types of things you're also interested in, then you should follow me.

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