Word: italian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the only downside to Topsfield is the questionable cuisine. While the burly man on your right screaming "get your giant Italian sausage right here" might get your motor running, he stops your appetite dead cold. The sight of various meats festering in their own juices is more than enough to send those with weak stomachs to the food stand sponsored by the local congregational church, where lighter fare such as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and corn on the cob can be had. On a brighter note, the cotton candy and fried dough rival the food at Six Flags...
Dorry's great gift, though, is for living and working, talking and listening in towns shadowed by the threat of ecological calamity--towns like Gloucester, Mass., the heavily Italian old fishing port where she settled four years ago. At first fishermen losing boats to bankruptcy weren't eager to hear their trouble analyzed by a woman environmentalist, and certainly not by a nonreligious Muslim, born in the U.S. of Iranian parents. But the underlying problem, years of overfishing off New England that had caused fish stocks to crash, wouldn't go away. Neither would Dorry. Quietly she spoke to Gloucester...
...reminds us that we live in a melting pot (because you never know whom you will end up marrying) and features statistics on how many Hmong are living in Wisconsin as well as a cultural-IQ quiz that begins, "Abdul, a young man from Egypt, fell in love with Italian-American Gina...
...Italian immigrant and a working mother, Galluccio grew up in Cambridge...
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL Roberto Benigni's prizewinning tragicomedy of an Italian Jew and his son in a Nazi death camp...