ay! forget about it! I love Italian Americans! they come from Italy and they're awesome!
I especially enjoy the culture of food that they've brought to America. We'd be nowhere without meals like pizza and spaghetti!
America, many of them Northern Italian refugees from the wars that accompanied the Risorgimento—the struggle for Italian unification and independence from foreign rule which ended in 1871. Immigration began to increase during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated (1870–79: 46,296) than during the five previous decades combined (1820–69: 22,627). The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States, the majority being from Southern Italy
middle class upbringing, and I also became the first African American woman to be the food editor of a major daily newspaper—"The Cleveland Plain Dealer". I love De Knight because she gave us permission to celebrate the wide diversity of what African Americans cooked and ate. Prior to her work, people would not accept that African Americans enjoyed preparing Chinese, French, Italian and other ethnic dishes. Their thinking was 'You don't really own that because that's white food.'
Without De Knight's work, we'd