I have always thought American clichés about Italy really funny.
For instance the way they try to Americanize Italian recipes is simply hilarious.
It goes without saying that Italian-Americans couldn’t preserve intact Italian culinary traditions for ever, after all too many years have passed since their grandparents left Italy for good more than a century ago.
So this new book Dinner wit Da Dons by Olindo Romeo Chiocca, an Italian-Canadian is something worth reading.
A book about the American Mafia’s links to Italian cuisine.
A story that the author tells with intelligence, spicing the whole thing with jokes and funny anecdotes.
From the pimp who refused to pay Mafia extortion money and ended up dead in a ditch to the recipes of the most famous gangsters of New York or Chicago