Bruculinu, America: Rememberance Of Sicilian-American Brooklyn, Told In Stories And Recipes; Author: Schiavelli, Vincent; Hardback; Book

Author: Schiavelli, Vincent
1st ed; Hardback; Book
336 pages
Published: October 1998
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0395913748

In the early 1950s, Bruculinu, as the Sicilian immigrants called their Brooklyn neighborhood, was a remarkable place. If the weather was fair, the streets would be teeming with life. Womenwould be haggling with pushcart vendors in Sicilian and broken English over pieces of fruits and vegetables. Other vendors in horse-drawn wagons would be chanting their wares amid the song of the ragman's bell and the iceman's bellow. Growing up in this place was like having one foot in mid-twentieth-century United States and the other in mid-eighteenth-century Sicily. So begins Vincent Schiavelli's captivating story of coming of age in the Italian section of Brooklyn. In a series of witty vignettes, Schiavelli describes the social customs and secret recipes he learned from his grandfather, aReminiscences of life in the Italian neighborhoods of Brooklyn are accompanied by recipes for traditional dishes as prepared by the author's grandfather, a Sicilian master chef.