How to say in Italian
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| From an Italian whose grandparents were from the 'old country..the only word I really learned...eat...is mangia...pronounced...maan (soft) g ah
I will let you know the rest when Dino gets home..he spoke it in his home until he went to school his parents are from Italy...  |
| When a friend's term came to call the "boys" she went into the church and called out "mangia, mangia" and they stood there on their scaffolds and laughed. So I'd like to be a bit more precise that that. |
I don't think I could be of much more help because my grandparents came from Sicily, and each of their families were from different regions, so different dialects. 
For example, for "come here", my maternal grandmother would say (and I'm spelling this phoenetically) ven-ee-KAH, where my paternal grandmother would say vee-ah-KAH-nee. As I get older, I truly wish I could speak my family's native tongue. Even my remaining aunts/uncles don't remember much of it since they never speak it any more.  |
| Chris...How right you are..MY maternal grandparents were from the Tuscany region, Trecate and my paternal's were from Sicily..
How I remember my grandmother calling me home from friends down the street from her front porch....memories!!!!!! |
| sei pronto per mangiare or tu pronto per mangaire. |
| Thank you, thank you. Today is their last day. Their work is beautiful and I am honored to provide their mid day meal.
No, no New Mexican or Greek food. It will be Italian and American. |
| Cannolis for dessert? Makes me want to run back to Little Italy in NYC - they have the BEST cannolis and cream puffs I've EVER tasted. Could also go for some authentic Italian bread - with a crispy crust and soft insides.
Val, don't know if you ever ate these - but as a child, there was an Italian grocery store around the corner from my dad's barber shop (could it gt more cliched? An Italian barber!). They had vats of both roasted and salted chick peas that we used to eat like nuts, which we used to call chichidees. I haven't had them in years, and I recently found them in a small Italian grocery store in a neighboring town that I didn't even know was there. I was in HEAVEN!! Walking into that store and smelling those familiar smells brought me right back home - even made me shed a tear. |
| I grew up in a very Italian area too - we had Italian delis with chickpeas (or garbanzo beans depending on who you were talking to). I still love them. I miss real Italian stores. |
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