Etymology:
Latin genuinus innate, genuine; akin to Latin gignere to beget — more at kin
Date:
circa 1639

1 a: actually having the reputed or apparent qualities or character b: actually produced by or proceeding from the alleged source or author c: sincerely and honestly felt or experienced d: actual, true 2: free from hypocrisy or pretense : sincere.

Honeyed Wild Boar

In a pot large enough to fit all the ingredients, place onions, garlic, rosemary, thyme, mint and celery in a generous amount of oil. After they have had a chance to brown a little and create a flavour base, add big chunks of wild boar. Squeeze some lemon juice over the whole thing, salt it well and put a lid on it. Cook for a long time (over low heat I imagine) and baste continually (or braise) with honeyed water, for a tender, succulent meat.

Serve on bread dunked in the cooking liquid.

Now available - to "Celebrate October ... Italian Heritage and Culture Month" - there is an on-line activity booklet for children and families as well as students and teachers entitled "Italian Explorers: Fun Activities for the Home or Classroom."

This booklet is free and can be found on the Community Programs page of the website of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.


To view this information - double click here- scroll down - double click on "Italian Explorers: Fun Activities for the Home or Classroom."

The booklet contains activities that include coloring, drawing, word search, connect the dots, a maze and more.

Children can have fun as they learn about several famous Italian explorers such as Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus), Amerigo Vespucci, Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), Giovanni da Verrazzano, and others.


Buon divertimento,

Geoffrey Claroni

Assistant Director for Community Programs John D. Calandra Italian American Institute



"Celebrate October ... Italian Heritage and Culture Month !"

CULTURAL HERITAGE: 'WITCHES' GRAFFITI IN PALERMO
(AGI) - Palermo, Italy, Aug.2 - The walls of the dungeons of Palazzo Steri in Palermo don't only tell about the lives of men imprisoned during the Inquisition, but also those of women, accused of sorcery: new graffiti and drawings were brought to light by recent researches carried out by the university. According to Sicilian ethnography expert Giuseppe Pitre', who, in the early 20th century discovered the wall carvings made by the people condemned by the Church between 1601 and 1782, the women were held in the basement dungeons, and the men in the ones on the 1st floor. "It's incredible that no trace of the women was found - wrote Pitre' - while evidence of the men is found easily". Those traces came to light during the recent restoration works, funded by the EU (7,300,000 euro allocated to a temporary group of enterprises, led by Vitale Costruzioni SpA, based in Naples) in order to build, in 27 months, the Museum of the Inquisition. Among the graffiti, there is a blood-curdling writing in Sicilian jargon: "Cavuru e fridu sintu ca mi pigla/ la terzuru tremu li vudella/ lu cori e l'alma s'assuttiglia" (I feel cold and hot, I have a temperature, by bowels quiver, my heart and soul are shrinking", words of terror, perhaps written before being sentenced to death. (AGI) -
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In the exhibition “Architecture of Devotion,” photographer Larry Racioppo looks at Roman Catholic sites of religious belief and practice created by members of New York's Italian American community of the past one hundred years. These religious landscapes include ephemeral sites such as the annual giglio feast in honor of St. Paulinus of Nola in Williamsburg and Joseph Pezza's decorated parking lot attendant's shed in Bay Ridge.
Construction of Lourdes Grotto facsimiles on church properties proliferated in the United States after Bernadette Soubirous was canonized in 1933, as was the case at St. Lucy's Church in the Bronx and Brooklyn's St. Francis of Paola Church. On the other hand, the Lisanti Family Chapel in Williamsbridge and Rosebank's Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Grotto, both listed on the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places, were built by immigrants on private property. Racioppo's photographs illuminate the lasting impact Catholicism and Italian American architectural design and building skills have had on the urban environment.