Yo Capeesh: A Guide to Understanding Italian Americans
Yo Capeesh: A Guide to Understanding Italian Americans
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Book Description
You know youÂ're a paisan ifÂ…
- You wear a gold chain with at least two medals, one of which is an Italian horn or hand.
- Someone you know is a gavone.
- Your richest relatives are in the garbage business.
- You never bought a pack of cigarettes that had a tax stamp on it.
Italian Americans are the most expressive and animated people on the planet. Whether you are a “friend of ours” or just a “friend of mine,” Yo Capeesh! is the complete handbook for true Italian living. A humorous, educational and sentimental guide to Italian Americana, Yo Capeesh! is a dictionary for interpreting the pungent hyperbolic clichés and mysteries of Italian American culture.
Open the pages of Yo Capeesh! and soon you will let-a your hands do the talking, cook zeppole for your goombahs and stock your CD collection with Vic Damone.
“Caridi has done the virtually impossible, in a relatively short space he's provided a sampling of an American sub-culture and made it fun reading.”Â-Nancy Madison, Author of Romantic Suspense and Romantic Comedy
About the Author
Jim Caridi, M.D., is currently an Associate Professor of Interventional Radiology at the University of Florida. A third generation Italian American raised in New York, he credits much of his personal and professional success to multiple injections of heritage combined with a strong dose of humor.
Yo Capeesh: A Guide to Understanding Italian Americans,James Caridi,Writers Club Press,0595221688,Americana,General,Humor
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