Our Food, Wine and Music

   
This page contains recipes and a food festival video from our area, as well as songs, including audio recordings.

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Food

 Anna's Own Recipes
by Anna Di Leone
 
   
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Summer Fusilli

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Crostata "My Way"

 
Traditional Recipes
by Anna Di Leone
 
   
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Scarrafun

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Asparagus Soup

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Stewed Broccoli



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Biagio Cofrancesco's wine
Wines of the Titerno River Valley
by John A. Cofrancesco

I can remember my father, a first generation Italian American growing up in Hamden, Connecticut, USA telling me about his childhood and how he remembered his father making wine. The children would help in the “stomping of the grapes” and drink wine with their meals starting at an early age.

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Naples at Table-Cooking in Campania
by Schwartz, Arthur R.

Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc, 1998


While technically this is a cookbook, it is so much more.  It includes information on the history and preparation of Italian food.  It covers the well-known Italian recipes, as well as some of the lesser-known specialties.  It encompasses the cooking of the provinces of Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, and Salerno, the internationally famous resorts of the Amalfi Coast, Capri, and Ischia - and of course, Naples itself.

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Regional Italian Cuisine

by Benussi, F., Hess, R., and Salzer, Sabine
Translated into English by Giacon Castleman, Elizabetta

Barron’s Educational Series, Inc 1999


A profusely illustrated collection of more than 200 authentic Italian recipes and cooking techniques, that is equally at home on a living room coffee table or in a kitchen. Organized into eight culinary regions, it is further divided into appetizers, first courses, second courses, vegetable side dishes, desserts, and of course the wines of the region. This makes it easy to create an entire meal that is characteristic of any part of Italy. Recipes from the Cofrancesco region of origin, Campagna, are well represented.

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Cover photograph by Bildagentur Eising AG, Schweiz

 
 


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The "Sagra Enogastronomica" of Massa
di Faicchio on Italian RAI TV


The Italian national channel RAI TV 1 recorded their program, "Festa Italiana", at the traditional "Sagra Enogastronomica" of Massa di Faicchio. This festival, which has taken place every year since 1985, is on the third week of September. It celebrates the "Madonna Addolorata", and is organized by the Pro Loco association of Massa di Faicchio. This is an opportunity to taste the great traditional food and the excellent wine of the Titerno River Valley.

Music & Songs

Traditional Songs  These songs were collected by Nicola Vigliotti, and published in a book. They are traditional songs of the the Titerno River Valley.
   
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Lullabies
 
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Lullaby of St. Nicholas

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Lullaby of Our Lady

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Ninna nonna e nonnarella

 

   

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Music from the Land of our Ancestors

Enjoy Neapolitan Music of Yesterday and Today.  This site contains nearly 50 songs that you can listen to and read the lyrics.

See Neapolitan Music

Thanks to:
Associazione Culturale Due Sicilie
for the picture of the Tarantella

 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 December 2009 )