Yo Capeesh

Yo Capeesh!!!! is a humorous, nostalgic, educational and sentimental guide to Italian Americana. It was written in a way that would appeal to many of the 25 million Italian Americans and those familiar with them. It is especially useful for those individuals smitten with the Italian American media. Using humor as its main focus, portions of the book are educational and can be used by all as a reference. It not only addresses Italian American heroes, songs and traditions but also phonetically and occasionally pictorially defines typical clichés, mannerisms, speech and food used in movies, TV and the stereotypical Italian American home. For those who are infatuated with the Mob, a chapter entitled “How the boys say it” explains many of the expressions and origins of organized crime vernacular. This chapter was included because of the somewhat crazed interest for this media genre and is sensitive to the majority of Italian Americans it does not represent. Briefly, Yo Capeesh!!!! is a whimsical, entertaining guide that has widespread appeal not only for Italian Americans but also for those who are interested in the allure and mystique of this unique and pervasive sub-culture.

Chucky and his zany friends have known each other forever, but they dont get together as much as they would like. Life got in the way. It happens. So to correct this grievous injustice, he inspires the gang to get together for a festive group vacation. The antics of this reunion will fuel legendary reminiscences for decades to come. It will be an epic adventure. But even this group could never have predicted just how weird that gathering would be They come face to face with the spirits of our founding fathers, a rather unconventional genie in a bottle, a group of misplaced Egyptian goddesses, a matriarch who is known only as Big Mama and a persnickety little imp who goes by the name of Harrold. Together, the friends will explore the explained, survive the unexplained, and wonder at the never-could-happens of their weird vacation. So sit back and enjoy the ride to a place where the troubles are few, the laughter is plentiful, and the joy comes from living in harmony with others who are delightfully different.

Yo You Capeesh It's a CookbookCome on a wild journey filled with lots of masterpieces for your little ones when this cookbook comes to life. That's right parents this cookbook will teach your little ones new and exiting masterpieces that you could never imagine existed before. Why this is one cookbook that I promise you will never ever forget when your children show you just what they created. To how talented they really are why you might even want to give this cookbook out to all your best friends, but without them knowing it so you won't have to worry about any problems later. Truly though your little Darlings will have endless fun and adventure even in your house where you least expected them to be. Why they will always surprise you around every corner. But remember parents all the actions performed in my book have nothing to do with me. It's all their doing, because I'm always the innocent cookbook and I never would do anything bad. Why I'm just paper all sewed up full of fun only for your youngsters.

After four years of working as a busser, Ghassan Jabali has emerged to tell all about his life and experiences in the restaurant biz. Have a walkthrough of the infamous restaurant Fiemme, in the NJN Hotel and Casino. Welcome to Fiemme is a collection of mishaps and stories about all the bussers, servers and hostesses as they work in Las Vegas.

Nyla searches for a way out of her troubled home life, but her way out of escape leads her deeper down a rabbit hole. Nyla has spent her entire life in The Bronx, New York, and the last several years in foster care. Her home life is challenging, to say the least, but she finds refuge in a new part-time job at a local baseball stadium where she vends food products. With merely months until she embarks on college, she becomes entangled in a web of deception, unbidden sex, and murder.

The Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our real-life perception of Italian Americans. Journalist and cultural critic De Stefano takes a look at the origins and prevalence of the Mafia mythos in America. Beginning with a consideration of Italian emigration in the early twentieth century and the fear and prejudice--among both Americans and Italians--that informed our earliest conception of what was the largest immigrant group to enter the United States, De Stefano explores how these impressions laid the groundwork for the images so familiar to us today and uses them to illuminate and explore the variety and allure of Mafia stories. At the same time, he addresses the lingering power of the goodfella cliché, which makes it all but impossible to green-light a project about the Italian American experience not set in gangland.--From publisher description.