Quotes About Italian

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

Lidia, this is how America has to cook Italian." And with this wonderful book, she showed us all how.

Marcella Hazan

and the differences between rolling pasta by hand versus with a machine.

Italians love to grow and eat vegetables, and in each of the twenty regions of the country, there is a favorite one.

Rice," the Italians say, "is born in water and dies in wine.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, "with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices.

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.

See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore

Hey Max...ITS THE LEANING TOWER OF CHEESE-AH!!!

Today, the official national language is Italian. This is based on the dialect of Florence, although people from each region have their own accents and speak Italian in a slightly different way. In some northwest border regions near France the people may speak French; and German is spoken in the far north. Sardinia has its own language.

The local market The local village or town market is often open-air, with canvas-covered stalls. The traders sell a variety of goods, from salami and prawns (shrimps) to feather dusters and straw hats. The customers meet to exchange news and talk about local affairs. This market, with a nut stall in the foreground, is in a village near Rome. Supermarkets are gradually becoming more common in large Italian towns, as they are in other European countries.

The vacation month On August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, known as Ferragosto , is a signal for working life to come to a standstill. Families head for the beaches or go walking in the hills. Vacation villas such as this one, in the Italian Alps, are popular with Italians and tourists alike, for skiing or sightseeing vacations.