The Italian Radio Hour

By Viviana AltieriSociety & Culture

The Italian Radio Hour episodes

April 20, 2023 My Italian Honey Bee with Marina Marchese
This week on The Italian Radio Hour - A conversation with Marina Marchese, Italian trained honey sensory expert and author of The Honey Connoisseur, a conversation that will span from her passion that started with Italian bees, honey tasting and bee keeping!
An interesting conversation not to be missed!
#italianbees #honey #beekeeping #queenbee
56 min
April 13, 2023 A Small Kitchen in Genoa with Enrica Monzani
Ready to travel to LIGURIA? Join me in conversation with Enrica Monzani, Founder of A small kitchen in Genoa, and now author of a new cookbook in Italian AND ENGLISH (Yeah): LIGURIA IN CUCINA - The Flavors of Liguria.
50 min
April 06, 2023 IL MESSAGGERO - From Calabria to the US, messages of hope - Pete Ferraro
From Calabria to Sharpsburg, the story of Pete's father, Pietro Ferraro and his mission to bring recorded messages of hope and joy to the United States as an immigrant in 1966. In doing so, he unknowingly immortalizes a generation of Italians through rare audio recordings and more than 50 years later we see its impact on the next generation living in the U.S.
55 min
March 30, 2023 SFOGLINI Pasta - How does US made pasta live up to their Italian counterparts?
How does USA made pasta hold up to their Italian counterparts?
Meet Sfoglini pasta! Sfoglini combines the very best of Italian technique and American ingredients: traditional bronze dies and plates, beautiful pasta shapes, great porosity! Pasta is also slow-dry to preserve both flavor and nutrients.
Sfoglini sources fifteen organic durum semolina pastas from the best in North American organic grains and local and small farms to produce various seasonal pastas throughout each year.
While interviewing Sfoglini’s Co-Founder Scott Ketchum, we cooked their cascatelli in a cream, pancetta, and coffee grinds (yes, you heard me!) for a real time test and the result was simply delicious.
The pasta held not only its beautiful "waterfall" shape but the sauce and a nice al dente bite!
Try to believe!
46 min
March 28, 2023 Remembering the Triangle Factory Fire with Mary Anne Trasciatti
This week on The Italian Radio Hour: REMEMBERING THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE.
As the City of New York is preparing to commemorate the 112th anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire where 146 mainly young immigrant women lost their lives, trapped in the building, we caught up with Mary Anne Trasciatti, President of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, and a Professor of Rhetoric and Director of the Labor Studies program at Hofstra University in Long Island.
Mary Anne talks about the impact this tragedy had on current safety and labor laws, what the commemoration will look like THIS FRIDAY, the construction of the Memorial that will unveiled later in the year and the impact this event had on the collective through the essays contained in "TALKING TO THE GIRLS".
To learn more: https://rememberthetrianglefire.org/commemoration/
ABOUT THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE:
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was the site of one of the worst workplace tragedies in American history. On March 25, 1911, fire broke out at the factory, which occupied the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building, in Greenwich Village, New York City. At the time, there were over 500 employees—most were young women; most were recent immigrants. The fire began on the 8th floor; most workers on the eighth and tenth floors were able to escape. However, those on the 9th floor, where the rear door was locked to prevent theft, were trapped. The locked exit, the collapse of the fire escape, and the inability of the fire truck ladders to reach above the sixth floor, resulted in the death of 146 workers, mostly young women. Many of the victims jumped to their death, rather than remain in the burning building.
ABOUT Mary Anne Trasciatti
She is co-editor Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Fire (New Village Press, 2022), with Edi Giunta. She is also a co-editor of Where Are the Workers?: Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites (University of Illinois Press, 2022).
Trasciatti is the daughter and granddaughter of garment workers, and has devoted more than a decade to advocating for the creation of a Triangle Fire Memorial. In her work, she is inspired by the discipline of rhetoric as a tool for knowledge creation, community building, and social advocacy.
ABOUT Talking to the Girls: Intimate & Political Essays on the Triangle Fire
A powerful collection of diverse voices, Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Fire brings together stories from writers, artists, activists, scholars, and family members of the Triangle workers. Nineteen contributors from across the globe speak of a singular event with remarkable impact. One hundred and eleven years after the tragic incident, Talking to the Girls articulates a story of contemporary global relevance and stands as an act of collective testimony: a written memorial to the Triangle victims.
Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition: https://rememberthetrianglefire.org/
48 min
March 23, 2023 LEAVING THE FACTORY with Director Alessia Cruci and Actor Roberta Sparta
This week on The Italian Radio Hour - BONUS INTERVIEW on The Italian Radio Hour:
We continue our conversation on Remember the Triangle Fire with Alessia Crucitelli, the Director of the short "Leaving the Factory" , winner at Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum and film leading actress Roberta Sparta.
With "Leaving the Factory," the filmmakers have created a story that humanizes the historical tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, which caused the death of more than 120 women and girls who were trapped inside the facilities. A major focus of Alessia's film is to change how Americans view the early history of feminism and worker rights by examining the important contributions that Italian textile worker women made on behalf of the movement".
51 min
March 17, 2023 Bruno Sammartino The Authorized Biography of Wrestling's Greatest Champion!
This week on The Italian Radio Hour: In conversation with Larry Richert (Producer of the documentary) and Bruno's son Darryl Sammartino.
Not only Bruno's achievements as an athlete with unprecedented sold out matches at Madison Square Garden as a headliner but also how his story on how he and his family escape from the tragedies of WWII, have made Bruno Sammartino a great inspirational figure for people all over the world.
Bruno was the son of Italian immigrant parents, who looked out at that world of privileged fame with the eyes of a boy whose family fled the Nazi invasion of their home in Italy, feared for their lives at the hands of Hitler’s SS Troop’s, were nearly machine gunned to death execution style and suffered malnutrition and near-fatal illness only to arrive in a country where his inability to speak the language and his poor physical health as a 13 year old 75 pound that made him a focus of ethnic ridicule and an easy target of schoolyard bullies.
Throughout his life, Bruno faced his own moments of challenge both in and out of the wrestling ring. This documentary provides an in-depth look at the man who holds honor above fame and dignity above fortune. It provides Bruno the opportunity to share the truth behind the speculation and allows others intimately involved with his life to share their experiences about the man behind the titles. Historic images and films plus recreations supplement the interviews and provide a chronological thread for detailing Bruno’s improbable rise to become the strongest man in the world.
Additionally, Arnold Schwarzenegger flew from a movie set in California to Madison Square Garden just to induct Bruno into the WWE Hall-Of-Fame in 2013.
Watch the video interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MofPhnAKDgQ
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44 min
March 10, 2023 Basilicata Secrets with Anita Aloisio
This week on The Italian Radio Hour - In conversation with Anila Aloisio For those belonging to a generation born from the immigrant experience, often the link to their heritage lies in the interaction and culinary rituals centered in the kitchen. The sacred ingredients and codes for food preparation make the process of cooking all the more meaningful. It isn’t surprising that family secrets and cultural attachments are interlaced and inadvertently divulged during the preparation of the meal. Food becomes the pretext for intuitive exchange and conversation.
Driven to honor such culinary attachments, Basilicata Secrets brings its audience on a cinematic and literary adventure. It highlights the richness of undisclosed culinary and oral traditions and recipes and illustrates them on video and in an unconventional recipe book. A total of 14 episodes produced for TV and Web platforms map out the 10 villages visited by the director Anita Aloisio who then shares her experience in uncovering the uniqueness of 14 recipe secrets. The Book, describes the personal journey of the director as she reconnects with the traditions and practices in food making and relationship building.
Emotionally strong, poignant and entertaining, the Basilicata Secrets project provides an opportunity to understand culture, identity and tradition and will satisfy the curiosity of the modern culinary traveler, the sedentary foodie and of course all Italophiles. For more info: www.istitutomondoitaliano.org https://basilicatasecrets.com/
38 min
March 03, 2023 The Gladiator Guide - Alexander Mariotti
This week on The Italian Radio Hour: A conversation with The Gladiator Guide" aka Alexander Mariotti aka "The GLADIATOR GUIDE. Alexander is an award-winning Roman Historical Consultant and a leading speaker on gladiatorial life, combat, and weaponry. We will learn interesting and less known facts about Gladiators, as well as when to see Gladiators parading downtown Rome, and much more!
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56 min
February 23, 2023 Italy on a Plate with Susan Gravely and Frances Mayes
The Italian Radio Hour brings you the best of Italy every Thursday! Every episode will have interviews with guests and people like you who love Italy. Ascoltaci anche tu!
This week on The Italian Radio Hour - A wonderful conversation with Susan Everett Gravely, Founder and Creative Director of Vietri, and internationally acclaimed author Frances Mayes as they share stories about Italy, Food, and Friendship to accompany the publication of Susan's new memoir and cookbook "Italy on a Plate". Foreword by Francis Mayes.
Want to watch the video interview? Head to: https://youtu.be/3XWMRgdoSjI
1 hr 1 min