Ten Things I Learned About Being Italian
on January 6, 2018 at 12:01 amHey Bros!
I gotta book about Italians coming out in March! Here’s ten things I learned. It’s a little sneak peek into my research!
- There are way more types of pasta than even I thought.
- The tomato didn’t reach Italy until the 1500’s.
- Italians didn’t invent pasta.
- The Chinese didn’t invent pasta.
- Italians were interred with the Japanese in the U.S. during WW 2.
- Lady Gag has a really Italian real name.
- Besides Popes, there were Anti-Popes.
- Italy wasn’t a country until the mid-1800’s.
- The Sicilians picked their own king after overthrowing the French.
- The oldest Italian festival in the U.S. has been held in Hammonton, NJ (where my dad is from) since 1875.