NEW YORK — On a cool sunny weekday afternoon, the crowds were out in Little Italy. In the two outdoor European-style cafes that anchor either end of Arthur Avenue, in the Belmont section of the Bronx, ...
Growing up in an Italian-American family from New York, pasta and sauce for Sunday dinner was ingrained in my blood. "Waddya mean you ate already? Mangia!" While I never met my ancestors who hailed ...