On the notions of home and migration, anthropologist Michael Jackson writes, “Once we have left our childhood places and started out to make up our own lives, . . . we understand that the real secret of the ruby slippers is not that ‘there's no place like home’ but rather that there is no longer any such place as home: except, of course, for the home we make, or the homes that are made for us” (2013, 158). One of the few objects that I brought home with me from my maternal grandmother's kitchen in Italy when I visited in 2012 is an old handmade aluminum ladle, an artifact she had used to stir, skim, and pour broths and sauces into bowls. The cultural biography of my grandmother's mestolo (in Italian, or cuppino, in the local Molisan dialect) is embedded in the multilayered emotional and sensorial memories...
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January 01 2022
Montréal à l'italienne/Italian Montréal
Montréal à l'italienne/Italian Montréal
. Pointe-à-Callière Archeology and History Complex. Montreal, Canada
. March 10, 2021–January 9, 2022.Italian American Review (2022) 12 (1): 156–159.
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Sonia Cancian; Montréal à l'italienne/Italian Montréal. Italian American Review 1 January 2022; 12 (1): 156–159. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/26902451.12.1.10
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