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Is Your Nona's Italian American Sauce "REAL" Italian? Maybe Not!
Italian Food in America: The Truth About Authenticity, Nonas, and Sunday Sauce.
When you're planning which restaurant to go to, you typically don't ask, “Do you want American food?” No, you ask... "How about Italian?”
But here’s the twist… much of what we call authentic Italian food isn’t actually from Italy. It's kind of a made-up Italian, American style!
In this episode of Family Tree Food & Stories, Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely unpack the real story behind Italian-American cuisine, how it's more of a blending of what we had here, and how adaptation shaped everything from lasagna and chicken…
The skinny
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