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My pizzeria was founded in 1899 by my grandfather. I'm the third generation in my family to run the shop. My grandfather was from Italy, and he brought the culinary traditions here to Little Italy in Taiwan. Little Italy was his stepping stone to opening an Italian restaurant in the capital. He did this because he loved Italian food. Also, Italian food was considered mainstream in his time.

I hope listening of podcasts will be a stepping stone to improve my English studying.

Today's learning is Done ✅ thanks to BBC learning platform ❤ Pizzaria Established Culinary A stepping stone Mainstream Forth or fifth generation

Thank you a lot for your interesting and useful podcast! From Genova, Italia

Georgie's voice is so soothing 😍 love this ! Interesting theme. I'll keep hearing it. Congrats to you both.

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Thanks for the video Georgie! Now I'm hungry! 🍕

AFTER his grandfather moved to USA in the midst of 1999 at the age of 7 ,They started to sell Italian foods like pizza .That is the culinary tradition he brought from Italy. After his son and his daughter got married they continued to set up restaurant and café where they could sell Italian foods such as Pizza and Spaghettis that attracted the attention of local peoples or residents and have become mainstream nowadays as well. It is the fourth generation being run Italian restaurant as successfully.

Thanks sir Neil and ms Georgie

Thanks BBC Leaning English...🙏

Thank you so much for these 6 minutes. I learned some new words.

thanks for the interesting information, this is very helpful for students to learning, listening and increase vocabulary 🙌🏻

Thank you... for providing very interesting information

Thanks BBC , it was very helpful

Thank you very much!!!

This is podcast really useful Thank you so much

Very good episode! I could learn more words and a bit more about italian culture.

Thanks guys..... If someone came to italy, please visit restaurants in Trastevere in Rome. 👋🖖💪

Thank you I love both pizza and garlic bread

Hi I am from in Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 I had have never know pizza's homeland is Italy I was thinking about it pizza in America 🤦🏻‍♀️but Now sure that Italy is homeland of pizza 🍕 😊 thank you for all information 😊

Georgie’s biggest fan here❤ just fall in love with her voice

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the new presenter has beautiful and very clear sound and accent . I liked her

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listen everydayy

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Thank you for providing me the latest programme. My favorite cuisine of Italy is peperonchino. I like pasta with garic, so I take it 2 or 3th a week. What about you, Neil? Also in Japan, there's famous Italyan restaurant throughout Japan, which's named Sayzeria. Take care, see you.

Wow, new knowledge for me

I really love this topic and some useful vocabularies as well as some facts relating to Little Italy although I don't often eat it. But my family often choose to order it on special occasions. They crave for Italian food such as pizza and spaghetti because of its flavorful taste and smell.

I really appreciate your efforts to give us new information and vocabulary about it . Thank you so much,in the beginning I did not understand everything,but when I am listening to you every day I improve my English skills ❤

Thanks for your video, that can help me improve Vocabulary, that must do everyday, and this topic interesting more, through this Video i Could comeback Italia one more. However i hope others Video has some pictures that can help me remember newwords more. The comment from VietNam

Thank you for sharing this video greetings from kapiso mo vlog family

While listening its much better that the words should be on screen that we learn the words .

useful

you make me hungry and I wish I could have a slice of garlic bread straight away, but i could not knew the meaning of A stepping stone 😪

Great presentation about Little Italy.

very cool

This episode makes me hungry and I wish I could have a slice of garlic bread right away.

I am really appreciate for your content.It is very useful for the English learner especially for the weak student.

Thank you BBC ❤, From India.

Very good about the news

Oh, welcome new host🎉

Wow that is an excellent podcast 👏 👍 👌 😀 🙌 😊 👏 👍 👌 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

They even translated with an Itallian accent 😄

Thank for the video.Because it seems to be very helpful for students who lack vocabulary skills. please keep going with this kind of content

Pretty good

I like the Little Italy😊

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Where can I find some good garlic bread... in Italy? : ) Greetings from Veneto, ciao!!

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In English, you say, "stepping stone". In Chinese, we say, "踏腳石". The English words and Chinese characters have the same meaning.

It is very good . Please , write about Uzbekistan

I hope oneday could go there and try Italian food

I'm hungry while l listen. to this podcast

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Thank you improve my english

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little italy sounds toooooooo little🤣🤣🤣

I listen this video but i don't understand what I do plz help me

hello I'm Understand the topic. but one problem. Founded is that I can not memorize some important issues in the passages so there for what should do ??? can someone help me thank you

I thought that the most popular Italian food were Pizza no Garlic Bread. In fact Iliked both, the Italian imigration was very important to world's culinary.

I can make very delicious pizza with wholewheat floor ... it takes 2 days to prepare due to tight bugdet in Turkey these days more difficult to eat quality food I love garlic :) but not garlic bread

I was wondering if you could tell me who Georgie is, please, BBC Learning English! I have never heard of her name or voice before.

2:26 The program says it is interviewing an Italian, but in the background you hear "bueno...". 'Bueno' is a Spanish word, not an Italian one. It is the curse of us Italians to be confused for Spaniards.

Little Italy immigrants moved in all over the world. They founded (established)their culinary tradition food restaurants.Now the fifth or fourth generation alongside the restaurant and the stepping stone is from the old generation. Their food and culture is accepted by maimstream of American.

I couldn't find an answer from the given conversation, because I can't perceive the important detail.

How can we know the level of the podcasts

Neil Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Neil. Georgie And I’m Georgie. Neil If I told you I’d been for a walk to see Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, you’d know straight away I was in London. Georgie But what if my walk went passed cafes selling mozzarella and ricotta where I smelled freshly made cannolis and focaccia… Where would I be then? Neil Focaccia and mozzarella… you’d be in Italy, right? Georgie Yes, Italy, or ‘Little Italy’ to be exact - the neighbourhood in some cities where Italian communities settled and made their home. Neil These Italian arrivals opened shops and cafes selling food to their own communities. Soon dishes like spaghetti and meatballs attracted the attention of local people, and gradually Italian food became famous around the world. In this programme, we’ll be taking a walk through two Little Italys, one in Argentina, the other in New York, and, as usual, we’ll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. But before that, I have a question for you, Georgie. According to a recent YouGov poll, which Italian food is most popular with British diners? Is it: a) pizza? b) lasagne? or c) garlic bread? Georgie I think it must be pizza. Neil Okay, Georgie, I’ll reveal the answer at the end of the programme. One country Italians moved to was Argentina. In 1898, Giuseppe Banchero arrived in the neighbourhood of La Boca, the Little Italy of Buenos Aires, where many Italian immigrants started restaurants. Here, Hugo Banchero, grandson of Giuseppe, tells his story to Veronica Smink, reporter for BBC World Service programme, The Food Chain: Hugo Banchero Well, my grandfather came from Italy, from Genoa, from Liguria. He was born in the centre of Genoa and arrived here in 1898 at the age of seven and a half, and this pizzeria where we are was founded on March 28, 1972. We have been here for 91 years. Veronica Smink So what culinary traditions did they bring with them? Hugo Banchero Well, our culinary tradition is pizza, and we incorporated the faina from Genoa, which is a pizza with chickpea flour… Georgie In 1898, Giuseppe founded his pizzeria - a restaurant selling pizza. When a business is founded, it’s established - someone starts it, or sets it up. Neil Giuseppe brought the culinary traditions from his home in Liguria in northern Italy, including regional pizzas like faina and fugazzetta. The adjective culinary describes anything connected with cooking. Georgie But probably the best-known Little Italy in the world is an area of Manhattan’s Lower East side in New York. Ninety percent of Italian immigrants who arrived in the US at the turn of the century came through this neighbourhood. Neil De Palos, one of the original shops selling Italian food in Little Italy, has been serving customers for 113 years. Here, Lou De Palo, co-owner and great-grandson of the original owner, Salvino, explains more about his family history to BBC World Service programme, The Food Chain: Lou De Palo 1925… when my grandmother, Concetta, and my grandfather, Luigi, got married, they open their own shop… it's the shop we continue today being the fourth generation working alongside my sister, Maria, my brother, Sal, and our children, the fifth generation. Our business has expanded; expanded to represent the full food culture of the 20 regions of Italy. Little Italy is the stepping stone of the Italian immigrant. This is where many of the Italians first came through Ellis Island, and then settled here, and then eventually moved into mainstream America throughout the rest of the country. Georgie Lou De Palo is the fourth generation of his family to run the shop, and his children will be the fifth. Phrases like fourth or fifth generation describe the children of people whose parents immigrated to a particular country. Neil After arriving in New York, many Italian immigrants moved on to start successful new lives elsewhere. That’s why Lou calls Little Italy a stepping stone, an experience that helps you achieve something else, like a real stepping stone helps you cross a river. As a result, Italian newcomers became accepted in mainstream America, mainstream meaning the culture and customs viewed as ‘normal’ by most Americans. Georgie It seems we owe a lot to Little Italy. But we still don’t know which food is most popular here in the UK. Isn’t it time to reveal the answer to your question, Neil? Neil Right. I asked you which Italian food is most popular in Britain and you said pizza, which would be my guess too, but is… the wrong answer, I'm afraid! In fact, the top choice for Italian food fans here in the UK is garlic bread. Right, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from this programme on Little Italy, starting with pizzeria, a restaurant that sells pizza. Georgie If something is founded, it’s started or established. Neil The adjective culinary describes anything connected with cooking. Georgie Phrases like the fourth or fifth generation describe the children of people whose parents immigrated to a particular country. Neil A stepping stone is an event or experience that helps you advance or achieve something new. Georgie And finally, the adjective mainstream describes the customs and culture which are accepted as ‘normal’ by most people in a society. Once again our six minutes are up. Until the next time here at 6 Minute English, it’s ciao! Neil Ciao!

I was there

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OMG I,m italian and Garlic bread can not be found in Italy

the first italian speaking actually has spanish accent

Guys, the biggest Italian community outside Italy is in São Paulo, Brazil, not NYC or Argentina.

Spaghetti and meatballs in Italy don't exist as a national dish. It's a legend...

Thanks BBC My summary while listening Little Italy, the neighborhood in some cities where Italian communities settled and made their home. These Italian arrivals opened shops and cafes selling food to their own communities. Soon, dishes like spaghetti and meatballs attracted the attention of local people, and gradually Italian food became famous around the world. According to Hugo Banchero, his grandfather came from Italy and arrived in La Boca in 1898. His pizzeria was founded on March 28th, 1972. They have been there for 91 years. His culinary tradition is pizza and his family incorporated the faina from Genoa (pizza with chickpea flour). His grandparents opened their own shop. Now he is the fourth generation, working alongside his sister, brother and their children (the fifth generation). Their business has expanded to represent the food culture of the 20 regions of Italy. Little Italy is the stepping stone of the Italian immigrants.

I listen to podcasts before I sleep, I have a little problem, the intro is too loud. Thank you for everything.

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This episode is not good, because too many of proper nouns！ For the beginner, it is so difficult to understand. Could you improve it in future？

Garlic bread is not italian! :)

No, garlic bread.

Garlic bread doesn't exist in Italy!

VOCABULARY FROM VIDEO What and where is Little Italy? ⏲ 6 Minute EnglisAh 1. Incorporated : formed into a legal corporation in the U.S. 2. Pizzeria : restaurant that sells pizza 3. Founded : established; set up or started (for example, a business) 4. Culinary : connected with cooking 5. (second/third/fourth etc) generation : used to describe the children of people whose parents immigrated to a particular country 6. Stepping stone : event or experience that helps you advance or achieve something else 7. Mainstream : customs and cultural behaviour viewed as ‘normal’ by most people in a society 14.12.2023 VIETNAM ALL THE BEST FOR YOU ^^

V. 🗞 1. Pizzeria ↪ A restaurant that sells pizza 2. Culinary ↪ An adjective used with anything that is about cooking 3. Established ↪ when something is founded 4. Fourth And Fifth Generation And so on 5. A Stepping Stone ↪ An event that helps achieving dreams 6. Mainstream ↪ When something is accepted by society

Thanks BBC , it was very helpful