This edition: Italian American Holiday Meals and Traditions
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Original tape date: December 17, 2013. First aired: December 25, 2013.On this Special Holiday Episode – featuring ITALICS’ first-ever culinary segments! – we will learn about, and how to make, traditional Italian-American and Italian holiday meals, including centuries-old recipes that mirror contemporary dishes catered to the health- and environmentally-conscious. Italics correspondent Lucia Grillo brings us into the kitchen with food historian Francine Segan. Then she’ll take us to 3 Brothers Pizza Café in Long Island, where Chef Jay Astafa is cooking up some traditions of his own. We’ll take you to the Westchester Italian Cultural Center’s presepio, and we’ll join the excitement in a game of tombola.
Guest List
Jay Astafa Chef, 3 Brothers Pizza Cafe/Jay Kitchen
Francine Segan Food Historian
Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD. Dean & Executive Director, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
- CAFÉ MARS AND CIVITA
- Monday, April 13 - 9:30am
- THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO: CONVERSATION WITH ADRIANA TRIGIANI
- Tuesday, April 14 - 9:30am
- Alain Elkann & ILICA
- Wednesday, April 15 - 9:30am
- Book Launch, PIACE, and a Presepio
- Thursday, April 16 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, May 5 - 9:30am
- Frank Ingrasciotta in Blood Type: Ragu
- Monday, April 20 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, May 6 - 9:30am
- Antonio Tibaldi, Gorgona
- Tuesday, April 21 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 23 - 9:30am
- Thursday, May 7 - 9:30am
- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Wednesday, April 22 - 9:30am
- Monday, May 11 - 9:30am
- TBA
- Monday, April 27 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, April 28 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, April 29 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 30 - 9:30am
- Monday, May 4 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, May 12 - 9:30am
- THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO: CONVERSATION WITH ADRIANA TRIGIANI
- Wednesday, April 1 - 9:30am
- CAFÉ MARS AND CIVITA
- Tuesday, March 31 - 9:30am
- Emma Stebbins at The Heckscher Museum of Art
- Monday, March 23 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, March 24 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, March 25 - 9:30am
- Thursday, March 26 - 9:30am
- Monday, March 30 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 9 - 9:30am
- Antonio Tibaldi, Gorgona
- Thursday, March 19 - 9:30am
- Wednesday, April 8 - 9:30am
- Frank Ingrasciotta in Blood Type: Ragu
- Wednesday, March 18 - 9:30am
- Tuesday, April 7 - 9:30am
- Book Launch, PIACE, and a Presepio
- Tuesday, March 17 - 9:30am
- Monday, April 6 - 9:30am
- Alain Elkann & ILICA
- Monday, March 16 - 9:30am
- Thursday, April 2 - 9:30am
