WORLDS APART.
Dad came here at 6 and mom’s parents came from Sicily.
Beans, zucchini, eggplant, a LITTLE bit of meat and a little pasta.
NOTHING like Italian American food.
I ate so healthy until I moved out.
I ate Italian when I lived home.
I ate Italian american when I moved out
A got relatives in Sicily and been there a bunch of times and I DID NOT know what about the pizza.
How fascinating.
“Beans, zucchini, eggplant, a LITTLE bit of meat and a little pasta.”
The classic Mediterranean diet is VERY healthy being low carb in nature.
The Mediterranean-American, not so much because saturated fats and carbs.
Growing up on the farm we ate healthy as well. Plenty of home grown vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs, fresh milk and butter. We worked plenty hard enough to work off any extra calories.
Odd trivia about Sicily.
When the allies invaded Sicily during WW2 American soldiers would tell the locals they were sent by Lucky Luciano and the locals would throw their doors open for the troops.
After the war Lucky, serving a 30-50 year sentence, was quietly released from prison and deported to Italy where he was greeted like a long lost son.