October Heritage Months Italian American – German American – Polish American

Celebrate Italian, German and Polish Heritage month this year and support local businesses by visiting some of these great locations. RESOURCES AND EVENTS Charlie Gitto’s - Zia’s – Cunetto’s House of Pasta - Rigazzi’s – Frank Papa’s Ristorante - Tony’s - Paul The Four Italian Tenors at Manno’s Café – Sugo’s Spaghetteria Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis The Feasting Fox - Hofbrauhaus https://cathedralconcerts.org/event/ Piekutowski’s (polish sausage shop) the-four-italian-tenors/ ______Food of the Italian South talk and Bartolino's Meatballs book signing at Left Bank Books 10/16/2019 Serve these homemade beef meatballs with sauce over pasta or in a hoagie bun for a https://www.left- fun family dinner. bank.com/event/katie-parla Ingredients Italian Heritage Parade and Festa at 1 egg, slightly beaten Berra Park 10/13/2019 ¾ cup soft bread crumbs (1 slice) ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese https://www.hillstl.org/events/list/ ¼ cup finely chopped onion Family friendly Oktoberfest at the 2 tablespoons snipped fresh parsley Zoo with Zootoberfest 10/5-6 and 12- 1 – 2 cloves garlic, minced 13/2019 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning or 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed https://www.stlzoo.org/events/zooto ¼ teaspoon salt berfest ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper 1 pound lean ground beef Soulard Oktoberfest 10/11-12/2019

http://soulard-oktoberfest.com/ Directions In a large bowl, combine egg, bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, onion, St. Stanislaus Church Fall Festival parsley, garlic, Italian seasoning or rosemary, salt, and pepper. Add with Polish food, drinks, and live ground beef; mix well. Shape into 28 meatballs about 1-1/2 inches in polka music 11/10/2019 diameter. http://www.saintstan.org/events.ht Arrange meatballs in a 15x10x1-inch baking pan. Bake in a 350 degree F ml oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until done (no pink remains, 160 degree F). Drain off fat. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

Tips To cook meatballs in a skillet, prepare as above through step 1. In a large skillet cook half the meatballs at a time in 1 tablespoon hot butter over medium heat about 10 minutes or until done (no pink remains,160 degree F), turning to brown evenly. Remove meatballs from skillet using a slotted spoon. https://www.midwestliving.com/recipe/beef/bartolinos-meatballs/,

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German-American Heritage Italian culture is weaved Since 1608, when the first Polish Month is celebrated on throughout American culture settlers arrived at Jamestown, Sunday, October 1, 2017. including food, art, and fashion. Virginia, Polish people have been German is America’s largest The Declaration of Independence an important part of the American ancestry group. According to was signed by two Italian dream of freedom and prosperity the Census Bureau, nearly Americans. Between 1880’s and without oppression. 50,000,000 Americans claim 1920’s there was a large German ancestry. migration of southern Italian and Things you need to know about Sicilian Italians to the United Polish Americans: German traditions celebrated States. Italian Americans are now in America: 1. Polish people are known as the fifth largest ethnicity in the craftsmen in glassmaking and Food: Chicken Fried Steak United States today and the woodworking industries (originally brought over as United States is named after an wiener schnitzel), American Italian, Amerigo Vespucci. 2. In 1897 the Polish National picnic items such as the hot Catholic Church was formed in Italian American food went dog/frankfurter, German Pennsylvania. Today, the PNCC has mainstream from the 1920’s to potato salad and various 126 parishes and more than 60,000 the 1960’s.1 Ettore Boieardi condiments such as Heinz members became popular and founded Ketchup and Hellman Chef Boyardee during this time. 3. Albert Abraham Michelson was Mayonnaise, sauerkraut and the first American to receive the of course German Beer! Though thought to have Italian Nobel Prize in sciences; Curtis Sliwa roots, dishes like spaghetti and Holiday Traditions: The founded the Guardian Angels; Ruth meatballs, Marinara sauce, Nutcracker Story, the Handler cofounded the Mattel toy Chicken parm, Baked ziti, Garlic Christmas tree, Easter Bunny company and created theBarbie bread, and Pizza (as we know it) and Easter egg hunts. doll and; Leo Gerstenzang invented are American. They are not the Qtip. Did you know? authentic Italian. 4. General Casimir Pulaski is October 6, 1683 was the date Early Italian immigrants had to regarded as the father of American of the first German settlement, adapt to purchasing food as cavalry for his role in training the which was established in opposed to growing it. They Continental Army. Germantown, PA. were not familiar with American ingredients or eating habits. 5. The traditional Polish Christmas In 1855, German immigrants in Originally Italians had a “veggie- Eve dinner consists of 12 meatless Wisconsin launched the first heavy, protein-low diet” which courses (one for each apostle), kindergarten in America, based “became meatier, saucier, and, as must have an even number of on the kindergartens in it only could in America, bigger.” diners with 1 empty chair to ensure Germany. good health. Did you know? Germans introduced physical 6 . The polish did not invent the education into the public Located in St. Louis, Fratellanza polka but have adopted the polkas schools Society is the oldest Italian at weddings. American organization.1 John Bausch and Henry Lomb 7. Polack is considered an ethnic created the first American slur and the Poles hate this term.