April 4, 2025 Chapter 10: Just Don’t Be a Lesbian, Okay? Bishop Kearney High School. All girls. All plaid skirts. All Catholic guilt, stacked high like the communion wafers they forced down our throats. It…
April 4, 2025 My Uncle Was a Real Mob Boss. I Work in a Legal One. When your uncle is Funzi —real name Frank Tieri, head of the Genovese crime family—you grow up with a very particular education. Not from…
October 8, 2024 Recipe of the Month: Baked Tofu – Italian Style Tofu and Italian in the same sentence? Yes, and in the same recipe. This recipe was originally a vegan “fried egg” substitute that has…
October 3, 2024 IMHO: Remembering Civility What happened to our country that held only promise and potential for my grandparents, aunts and uncles? Am I permitted to continue to write…
January 31, 2019 Recipe of the Month: Baked Broccoli Mom used the oreganata approach to many dishes but never broccoli. I apply the December 2018 entry for Oreganata Everything to broccoli as follows:…
January 31, 2019 Girls are Good. Boys are Bad. What were we thinking? When I was growing up, many Catholic grammar schools in Brooklyn had separate entrances for boys and girls. Classrooms were also segregated. This was…
December 31, 2018 Chapter 4: Ringing the Bell It’s New Year’s Eve and one thing invariably comes to mind…Uncle Louie ringing the bell at the stroke of midnight. Not a doorbell. Not…
December 30, 2018 Recipe of the Month: Tofu Scramble Yes, Tofu Scramble and here’s why… My mother was the best cook. Since every Italian kid feels the same way, including my mom about…
December 29, 2018 Feast of More than the Seven Fishes Since the best day of Italian eats passed by for this year, it’s worth noting that Christmas Eve is the epitome of all things…