Growing up in an Italian family, food was everything. Every holiday, celebration or weekly Sunday dinner was centered around food. Gathering everyone to the table was the most important part of the ...

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Expressions of Italian heritage this time of year are usually not subtle. It’s the heaping helping of pasta and sauce, the zooma-zooma music of Louis Prima, the St. Joseph’s Day parade filling the ...

ANTIOCH — It’s a recipe for fun — music, a treasure hunt and cookies, all in a deliciously historic setting. Hosted by Antioch’s Sons of Italy club, the sixth annual Cucidati Cookie Contest starts at ...

Despite our country's romance with all things Italian, it seems there is a serious gap when it comes to Italy's colorful and diverse repertoire of cookies. Admittedly, it's not as if French, Peruvian ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Theresa Polichetti of Castleton Corners has a fondness for figs in cookies. The fig cookies in the pastry cases at Buono Bakery on Hylan Boulevard have made the neighborhood ...

1 cup shortening (half butter, half shortening, such as Crisco) 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 45 minutes. For the filling: In a food processor, finely chop raisins, figs, pine nuts and almonds. Place ...

Christmas is just around the corner, and you know what that means — cookies! I have always been inspired to cook or bake food from my ancestry. My paternal grandma is from the Abruzzo region of Italy, ...

Do you like Italian delicacies? If so, the Sons & Daughters of Italy, C. Colombo Lodge #1315, invites you to its 10th annual Cucidati Contest and Fall Festa, from noon to 3 p.m. on Nov. 17 at the ...

One of my favorite Christmas childhood memories was of my mother baking chocolate chip cookies. Somehow among the panettone, cucidati (Italian fig cookies), and pignoli (Italian pine nut cookies), ...