November 3, 2026
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Italian Cooking – The Joys Of Cooking Italian Dishes!

Dale Postby Dale Post


There are many people that enjoy cooking as a hobby and collecting new recipes for cooking techniques is a past-time for others; for these and other such gourmet lovers, there is a whole new world of continental cooking awaiting – with interesting, exciting and flavorful meal options, such as those contained in true Italian cooking!

Italian cooking has many varied styles, methods and aspects to the whole preparation process and presentation, fine dining etiquette, sharing with loved ones and friends is a big part of their food stories. So, as far as authentic Italian cooking is concerned, this must combine cultural and social elements besides the fresh, distinctly Italian seasonings and main ingredients with a love for cooking and sharing it as these people have even given to the world the Joy of Cooking!

Even Americans have adapted certain traditional Italian cooking recipes to suit their tastes, but keeping them as filling and wholesome as the authentic Italian dishes are prone to being; but those on home ground with Italian cooking will assert the differences between their style and that of Americans

Keen on learning true Italian cooking or desirous of picking up more tips from professional Italian chefs that can sharpen your skills? Then you can load up on information related to Italian cooking culture and traditions, including tips on selecting the right cookware and perfect vegetables, meats and making sauces to boost your knowledge.

Recipe books are a-plenty that deal with all these aspects of Italian cooking besides more handy hints to make your home cooking tasteful. Visiting an expert chef’s blog on great Italian cooking is another place to get in-depth info on techniques, approaches and efforts on the style besides learning what not to do!

Italian cooking is so vast and varied a domain that many people are amazed to find there’s more to it than simply the regular pastas; there are vegetable and meat salads and many varieties of healthy, wholesome soups too besides the famed sauces, pizzas and breads!

Some people mistake Italian cooking to be only the fattening variety, but this is not always true as this style of cooking can be readily made more nutritious and healthful by simply substituting or deleting the more fatty items, such as oil, high-fat dairy products like cream and cheese, with low-fat or no fat alternatives! This way you get the goodness of Italian cooking in your diet and necessary nutrition fro hair, skin, nails and bones by keeping only the essential oil and fat in the menu, but cutting off the excess! Hi-carbs like in Pastas are not bad by themselves, if taken in moderation.

Besides the above tips on finding resources for real Italian cooking, you can consider eating out at an authentic Italian bistro; the internet is a great search tool and will give you the top listings for local restaurants with Italian delicacies galore. Do check for customer feedback, the reputation of the business, items on the menu and its price list so you and your family or friends have a great time enjoying the ambience and the food with no worries!

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* So many of us have the same stories, the same memories. You are right with each passing generation we lose a part of our Italian culture. We must pass our traditions to our children, we must teach them to make homemade pasta and to cook with love, for our families. To be proud of their nationality and to keep the traditions and memories alive. I just recently became an Italian citizen, a gift from my grandfather from the grave. They worked hard and sacrificed so much for us. Please take the time for Sunday dinner with your family make the food with your hands like grandma did. Tell your children stories, they will be proud to be Italian too. I am second generation but my wife still cook all grandma’s recipes just like she My mother taught my wife to make homemade wedding soup, ravioli ect. We must not let their traditions disappear. It’s the simplest things that bring the greatest pleasures in life. It’s all about love, food and respect. We show our love thru the food we make.
Buon appetito.
This is the Revised Edited and Narrated by Jack Bogut with the original Musical Score by Vito DiSalvo
This is a 12- 13 minute audio narrative.
I am not the author of this but this is the way it was when I was growing up in Western Pa. and I would like to share it with all of you.

Thank you all very much (Mille Grazie) for watching this Slide Show…If you would like to purchase a CD of the music and the narration only “The Joys of Growing up Italian” (Not the Slide Show) visit the website www.Aspetto.com click on the tab (Italian Music). Please keep in mind that the Slide Show is Not part of the CD…

The Joys of Growing Up Italian (www.Aspetto.com) The Joys of Growing Up Italian (www.Aspetto.com)

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18 thoughts on “Italian Cooking – The Joys Of Cooking Italian Dishes!”

  2. mamma and Papa would love this video. thank you for resurrecting such ancient traditions that have slowly slipped through the finger of these newer generations.

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  4. I saw this video on Christmas Day and it truly brought tears to my eyes….filled my heart and soul with wonderful memories. No, Lawrence Cavallo, this didn't have to be voice by a Brooklynite, this man is from Pittsburgh and has the voice of a trained announcer….I can tell this from the Cathedral of Learning from the University of Pittsburgh and the Italian Social Club's sign from New Castle. He is just as Italian American as any person from Brooklyn (not to put down those wonderful people.) Thank you, Mr. Fusco, for this amazing tribute to growing up Italian….I live in New Jersey in a town filled with "medeguns" and so appreciate your video.

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  5. A great anecdote, but couldn't they have gotten a narrator from Brooklyn. This guys sounds like a farmer talking about those i talians!

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  6. What can I say about this wonderful video that hasn't been said already?  It's true that certain traditions get lost with each passing generation.  Case in point — the Christmas Eve 7 fishes dinner.  Now that my grandparents are gone, the only one keeping that tradition alive is my sister.  The rest of the family kind of splintered apart, and a lot of them moved to other states.  Holidays just don't have the same magic to me anymore.  The things I used to look forward to as a kid just don't exist anymore.  I can't even remember the last time I ate pasta that was homemade instead of dumped out of a Barilla box into a pot of hot water.  How I would love to go back in time to taste my grandmother's homemade gnocchi or cavatelli pasta, or her homemade tomato gravy with all kinds of meat in it!  My maternal grandmother used to make white linguine with oil, garlic and fresh parsley that was to die for!  Put some cooked cannellini beans on top, and I thought I was in Heaven!  I miss those times, those traditions, and the people that went with it all.  Why do so many good and wholesome things have to get ripped away from us?  How does it make us better and stronger people when the things and people we love aren't there anymore?  What on God's green earth is it all for?  What's the reasoning behind us having to endure all this loss and sadness?  It's just madness!  I'd like to think Jesus will make good on His promise and come back soon to right all the wrongs and restore all that is good, because it'll drive me batshit crazy to think all we have to look forward to is this cesspool of death, disease and destruction that this world is fast turning into.  I await the second coming and the resurrection of all the people I've loved and lost, and maybe those old traditions will have new life breathed into them as well!  At least I have those wonderful memories to sustain me in this life and counter-balance all the crap that's going on in this world.  God bless all Americans of Italian extraction who are trying their best to keep passing those old traditions to successive generations.  You're making your ancestors proud, and in a way, keeping a piece of them alive as well.

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  9. I love the Blessed Trinity, I love the Truth, I love Peace and Privacy, I love George Washington, I love all of my Family both the living and the dead. I Love my Country and its People, I love America, I was born here and I am a 4th generation Italian and extremely proud of it! It is not my Fault, that because we live under the Power of Darkness and those that love dancing with it and bragging about it, continue to turn our country and also the world into an Abomination of Desolation. Hey! all you wonderful people out there and statistics show that the biggest majority are Christians ! Don't be worried or scared ! THE YEAR 1916 Will be the sound of the TRUMP ! If you believe in GOD, JESUS CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT and don't be confused, they are all in one. You pray to one you pray to all. Jesus is ALL IN ALL ! He is the ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. We go to Paradise ! GOD takes over after that, he puts us in a safe place because we are his children and then he takes care of business! Then the tables turn !

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  11. Thank you Jeanette Dobrolovich- McQuade !This really brought back memories and a tear to my eye. It made me miss my grandparents THE GLUE that held our family together. We had all the same things shown in the video. Even the peddlers ! By the time the 1970’s/80's came around they were beginning to die out.We had a guy Mike, he was the fruit and vegetable guy he drove around in a converted to schoolbus. We loved when Mike showed up because every time we went downstairs to buy something from him he would throw in a pie !He would say to my mother, "here, here take it ! The kids will eat it ! Take ! Take !" My dad always had a garden and back in the day he even had the fig trees,the peach trees , the grapes as well as the basil, tomatoes, garlic eggplant, zucchini.He still has a garden but a much smaller one. Sundays at my grandparents house were crazy !How we fit 30 to 40 people in a small apartment I will never know. I remember as a kid completely emptying out my grandmothers living room putting every stick of furniture in her bedroom on top of the bed and in the corners just that we would have room to put the tables and chairs up so everybody could sit and eat. At least the grownups got to sit at that table we had to sit in the kitchen at the kids table ! BUT WE DID IT !And we did it every Sunday and look forward to going.My grandmother was one of 13 children and my grandfather was one of 18 children I have countless amount of cousins. But we were all like brothers and sisters.And the same six names were circulated throughout the family. Salvatore, Anthony, Maria, Theresa, Michael and Rose.And just like in the video our Sunday meals were exactly the same. The food just never stopped coming it was salads, antipastos, pasta dishes, roast meats vegetables, cakes, pies, cookies, cannoli, pastries it never stopped ! We would eat until we couldn't move anymore. AND THAT WAS JUST A SUNDAY MEAL !For holidays it was even more ! Christmas was literally a two day event.We had everything mentioned above on a Sunday meal……. PLUS The seven fishes on Christmas Eve, Baccalà salad, and StruffoliIt really does make me sad that my cousins have moved so far away and I only get to see or hear from them through Facebook not even on the phone anymore.And what makes me even sadder is that my children will never know what it was like growing up this way. I show my kids videos like this and old family photos and Home movies. But they just don't seem to get it. I loved growing up Italian.

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  12. This is such a beautiful video and so captures my life growing up in New Jersey.  I can watch this over and over and over and it still has the same effect….makes me happy and so nostalgic.  Thank you for painting this beautiful beautiful portrait of a simpler special time!

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  18. the JOYS of growing up ITALIAN..
    I promise it will bring back lots of memories of GROWING UP ITALIAN ..
    YOU WILL LOVE IT!! 
    If you have never heard this narration by my friend, 
    and Pittsburgh's own Jack Bogut. 
    you've got to listen and watch to this…..video …
    ENJOY!! & HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL

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