Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
Growing up in an Italian neighborhood, we had pizza before it became popular across the country. Every pizzeria made their own sauce with Roma tomatoes, and some of the old timers from Italy bought imported Mozzarella Cheese. Going around the corner to Jimmy's for a night of pizza for supper was not a special treat, it was everyone in my neighborhood's thing to do on Saturday night. The kids fed nickels into the jukebox and the grownups caught up on all the gossip.
We had a POW camp in Eastie for Italian POWs. The Italian women would make big pizzas and bring them to Wood Island where the camp was. The soldiers would let them in to give them to the soldiers. Some of the women even had relatives there. Every week it was like old home week. If a woman came from Naples, she would give her pizzas only to those from Naples.
We had a POW camp in Eastie for Italian POWs. The Italian women would make big pizzas and bring them to Wood Island where the camp was. The soldiers would let them in to give them to the soldiers. Some of the women even had relatives there. Every week it was like old home week. If a woman came from Naples, she would give her pizzas only to those from Naples.