THE FORGOTTEN KITCHEN

I am an opera fan. My grandmother, my Nana, came to New Orleans from Palermo. She was 18 years old. She grew up at a time when opera was still popular music in Italy. As a young woman in New Orleans she sang with the amateur company that was the Italian Opera Company in New Orleans. All the thousands of Sicilians who came during the turn of the 20th century had all grown up with opera.By...