In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak with Lidia Bastianich, otherwise knows simply as Lidia, Emmy award-winning public television host of “Lidia’s Kitchen,” bestselling cookbook author, restauranteur,

In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak with Rick Zullo, an American writer, teacher, and relentless Italophile. He was born in Chicago, raised in Florida, but always dreamt of Italy. In 2010,

Photo: Joan Marcus In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak with Tom Santopietro, the author of five books: “The Sound of Music Story”; “The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me”; “Sinatra in Hollywood”; “Considering D...

Photos courtesy of Kathy McCabe, left. In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak with Kathy McCabe, host and executive producer of the travel series “Dream of Italy,” showing on PBS stations around the U.S. through spring 2017.

In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak to author Maria Laurino, who has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, and whose essays are widely anthologized. Her first memoir, Were You Always an Italian?, (W.W.

Please note this is part 2 of our interview with Adriana Trigiani, you can listen to part 1 here. In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we air Part Two of our conversation with New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani,

Please note, since this was published, we have also published part 2 of our interview with Adriana Trigiani. In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak to New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani,

This is a very special Christmas episode that is dedicated to our family member Pina Maietta, who left us too early. We celebrate her in this episode by doing what she would have been doing at this time of the year.

In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we visit the Italian American Museum in Little Italy, New York City.  Founder and Director Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, Ph.D. talks about what Italian immigrants went through and how he is trying to recreate th...

You can listen to this episode by clicking the player above or subscribing on iTunes. Are your ancestors Sicilian? Have you ever been to or wanted to go to Sicily? Well, this is the episode for you. In this episode, John Keahey,