Massapequa Columbus Lodge
Italian Feast and Festival
September 26 Twins birthday!
THE ITALIAN WAY
Italian Feast and Festival
September 26 Twins birthday!
THE ITALIAN WAY
The Italian way
Life is a holiday
Rites of tradition
Scenes of celebration
Heritage artistic
Music sings poetic
Fiestas in streets
Italians meet
Regional buys
To cultural ties
A holiday mood
For Italian food
Minestrone, risotto
Pasta, antipasto
There grapes vines
Pours the wines
Italians belong
Wine, arts, song
To live each day
The Italian way
Susan Marie Davniero
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Grandma's Homemade Pizza -
A Taste from the Past
Memory of Grandma, Bridget
Cioffi
Taste and see my best pizza
memory - pizza was a taste from the past. Those were the good old New Year’s Eve
days growing up celebrating New Year’s Eve at my grandparents’ house, Joseph and
Bridget Cioffi.
Walking into their three
story Brooklyn Victoria home, the
aroma of Grandma’s authentic Italian Sicilian homemade pizza escaped from the
kitchen to pervade the air for a warm entrance. It wouldn't taste like New
Year’s Eve without Grandma's homemade lip smacking homemade pizza.
Grandma’s
special homemade Pizza came to be our family’s New Year’s Eve tradition - we ate
it up as the clock hits midnight. With Grandma’s
special pizza cuisine on the menu for New Year Eve’s we didn’t just say Happy
New Year we said Bon appetite with every bite.
Suddenly
it’s Midnight and we take captive of Grandma’s pizza pots, pans and wooden
spoons from the kitchen running into the dark of night onto the streets banging
away on the pots and pans broadcasting Happy New Year’s to the world. In those
days it was safe outside on the street.
It
was another slice of nostalgia on New Year’s Eve saying goodbye to the last year
and knowing that one day we will be saying goodbye to Grandma’s pizza also. Turn
the calendar page as years past and Grandma's New Year Eve’s pizza has left only
its taste on my memory - pizza days at Grandma’s is no longer served.
Since
those days I’ve had many New Year’s Eve shared with loved ones, family, friends
and my loving husband, Bob. Yet, alas, New Year’s Eve will never "taste" the
same without Grandma's special homemade pizza - a taste from the past.
Bon
appetite!
Susan
Marie Davniero
Bon Appetite to
Yesteryear
(In memory Grandma
Bridget Cioffi)
New Year's Eve of the past
Good old days do not last
Yet memories I can still taste
Welcome to Grandma's home
Scent of homemade pizza roam
Escaping from kitchen room
Suddenly it's New Year's Eve
Midnight pizza pie is serve
Yearly family tradition preserve
Slice of Grandma's years
Fall of nostalgia tears
Bon appetite to yesteryear
Written by Susan
Marie Davniero
Grandpa
and Grandma Bridget and Joseph Cioffi
with granddaughters Susan, Teresa and
Laura
ITALY’S RICHES
Italy’s riches
The lire niches
Riches to hold
Stories are told
Italians are selected
Profile of the elected
Colorful price of art
The lire bill is mark
Italy’s cultural treasure
Money is measure
More than dollars and cents
Italy’s riches make sense
Susan Marie Davniero
New York Daily News
Published - Voice of the people for Oct. 10, 2011
Lindenhurst, L.I.: The Columbus Day Parade is a celebration of tradition. Perhaps the Italian taste of the parade is the flavor of the day; however, it's not the only spice in the mix. All Americans are members of the cast on the Columbus Day stage. We are all in this together.
Susan and Robert Davniero
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| Italian Feast & Festival |
\NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Columbus Day Parade Monday
Daily News readers are all set to go for the Columbus Day Parade
The Columbus Day Parade is a celebration of tradition. Perhaps the Italian taste of the parade is the flavor of the day; however, it's not the only spice in the mix. All Americans are members of the cast on the Columbus Day stage. We are all in this together.
Susan and Robert Davniero
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| Italian Grandma Bridget with Fischetti Granddaughters |
Bon Appetite to Yesteryear
(In memory Grandma Bridget
Cioffi)
New Year's Eve of the
past
Good old days do not
last
Yet memories I can still
taste
Welcome to Grandma's
home
Scent of homemade pizza
roam
Escaping from kitchen room
Suddenly it's New Year's Eve
Midnight pizza pie is
serve
Yearly family tradition
perserve
Slice of Grandma's
years
Fall of nostgalgia
tears
Bon appetite to yesteryear
written by Susan Marie
Davniero
Photo: Grandma Bridget Cioffi w/grandaughters Susan, Teresa,
Laura
Readers sound off Columbus Day Voice of the People for Oct. 13, 2014
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Everyone is Italian on Columbus Day.Columbus Day here and now
Sound Off From Lindenhurst, L.I.:
The Columbus Day Parade is a celebration of tradition. Columbus’ sailing voyage gives wind to fly the Italian flag; yet it waves alongside the American red, white and blue flag in patriotic unity with Americans. Columbus Day is for all Americans together.
Looking back, I remember my beautiful-Italian-born grandmother Bridget proudly becoming an American citizen. My grandmother held my hand as a little girl as we walked to the voting booths and grandma voted for the first time during the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon presidential election. I recall Grandma saying: “The women vote for Kennedy because he’s so good-looking.”
That was then, this is now. All Americans are members of the cast on the Columbus Day stage. We are all in this together. God bless America!
Susan and Robert Davniero
Lindenhurst Gazette
A Letter To The Editor about September 11th
Bon Appetite to Yesteryear
(In memory Grandma Bridget Cioffi)
New Year's Eve of the past
Good old days do not last
Yet memories I can still taste
Welcome to Grandma's home
Scent of homemade pizza roam
Escaping from kitchen room
Suddenly it's New Year's Eve
Midnight pizza pie is serve
Yearly family tradition preserve
Slice of Grandma's years
Fall of nostalgia tears
Bon appetite to yesteryear
Written by Susan Marie Davniero
Published NY Daily News
Columbus Day Letter to the Editor
The Columbus Day Parade is a celebration of tradition. Columbus ships gives wind to fly the Italian flag; yet it waves alongside the American red, white and blue flag in patriotic unity as Americans. Columbus ship has sailed. All Americans are in the same boat Columbus Day.
All Americans are members of the cast on the Columbus Day stage. We are all in this together.God bless America!
Susan and Robert Davniero
Grandpa and Grandma Bridget and Joseph Cioffi
with granddaughters Susan, Teresa and Laura
Bon Appetite to Yesteryear
(In memory Grandma Bridget Cioffi)
Published Long Story Short
New Year's Eve of the past
Good old days do not last
Yet memories I can still taste
Welcome to Grandma's home
Scent of homemade pizza roam
Escaping from kitchen room
Suddenly it's New Year's Eve
Midnight pizza pie is serve
Yearly family tradition preserve
Slice of Grandma's years
Fall of nostalgia tears
Bon appetite to yesteryear
Written by Susan Marie Davniero
Published NY Daily News Columbus Day 10/12/15
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