The Italian American Podcast

The Italian American Podcast


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IAP 311: Italian American Future Leaders 2… The Next Generation!
February 10, 2024

In January of 2023, more than 100 young, active Italian Americans between the ages of 21 and 35, gathered together in Sunrise, Florida for our inaugural Italian American Future Leaders Conference. This year, we set out to live up to the incredible succes

IAP 310: Teach Your Kids Sicilian! With Special Guest Nick Panzarella
February 03, 2024

How many Italian Americans out there are working hard to try to pass the Italian language, or one of Italys countless Regional Languages, onto the next generation in their family? What about those of us who are attempting to do it while learning one of

IAP 309: Are Italian Americans White? The Racial and Ethnic Categorization of Italian Americans.
January 26, 2024

What do YOU use to answer the question on race and ethnicity on the U.S. Census? The Federal Government has recently undertaken a reexamination of the Federal Standards on Racial and Ethnic Data Collection, and as a part of that process, they have inv

IAP 308: Old School Genealogy is Analog and Awe Inspiring: a Conversation with Genealogist Maria Carparelli
January 13, 2024

In a world with an app for everything, and the ever-increasing presence of artificial intelligence, what happens when technology cant answer our questions or solve our problems? Sometimes it pays to remember how to do things the old-fashioned way!Fr

IAP 307: More Than Just Ethnic Comedy! Sooshi Mango Comes to America
January 05, 2024

What is it about the Italian experience around the world that makes our story so relatable? Sure, it's one thing for us Italian Americans to connect with our Paesani across the seas in Australia, but why is it that the trio of Italian Australian come

IAP 306: We All Say Buon Natale! Making Our 2023 Christmas Music Video with the Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra
December 22, 2023

Everyone knows the song about Christmas in Hawaii, but while we can appreciate a holiday with sun and sand, wheres the song that celebrates a Buon Natale filled with pesce and paisans??Well, we at the Italian American Podcast set out to create a song fo

IAP 305: How Six Italian Brothers Shaped Modern America: Eduardo Montes-Bradley and His Search for the Piccirilli Brothers
December 16, 2023

Over his long career as a writer, filmmaker, academic, and award-winning documentarian, Eduardo Montes-Bradley has always been inspired by his love of learning. But these days, it's his Italian heritage that drives his tireless quest to uncover the si

IAP 304: “Who Stole The Panettone?” Gianluca Rottura on the Best Buys to Add to This Year’s Holiday Table
December 09, 2023

Gianluca Rottura, the proprietor of In Vino Veritas, New York Citys landmark wine store, returns to the Italian American Podcast to bring us his take on the famed Italian Amari But, we go completely off the rails and end up getting some of his best re

IAP 303: Severino D’Angelo’s Amazing American Dream on Paesani of Interest: Italian American Stories (Part 2)
December 02, 2023

Join us as we jump back into the incredible life story of Severino DAngelo, a Paesan of Interest with a story in which determination and dedication meet some very good luck. Leaving what he describes as a Medieval Italy Severino DAngelo went on to

IAP 302: Severino D’Angelo's Amazing American Dream on Paesani of Interest: Italian American Stories (Part 1)
November 17, 2023

Severino DAngelo is a name you might not recognize. But, if youve stepped into a car in the United States at any point since Ronald Reagan was in the White House, youve encountered a technology patented by this unassuming Paesan of Interest.Leaving