Ticinesi emigrants

For English learners: About emigration, food, fotos, traditions, vocabulary, video

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Tenero-Locarno                 Ascona/island                  Maggia valley/Moghegno

 

 

Ticinesi emigrants:

I think this is a highly interesting series of articles and videos by swissinfo.ch which gives us the possibility to undestand better the hardship these people went through in the hope of  escaping poverty.

The videos are all with Italian subtitles so they are perfect also for beginners!

more about “keeping up traditions“, posted with vodpod

Questions to: Keeping up traditions:

Please transform the following sentences from the past to the present tense:
My father was from Dongio.
He came over at the age of 17.
He became a chief.
He used to cook for the queen.
In those days catering was even harder.
My Grandfather didn’t want to see the offsprings going off into catering.

Reported speech:Mr. Giuliani, president of the ”Unione Ticinese”, says that …………..

…………………………………………………………………………….to England.

Mrs. Bailey says that ……………….grandfather came from the Blenio valley in 1900.

The grandfather took over a Restaurant in ……………………..

Mr. Mario Foletti ………………………………….when he first married and Mr. Demaria’s

Father went …………..and forward to Switzerland.

When his mother didn’t know English well she read on a gardengate.”: “Please shoot the cat instead of “please shut the gate”!

Here you can find the following song: Vuoi venire con me in ‘Merica? Do you want to come with

me to America?

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/swiss-italian_migrations/video.html?

siteSect=22545&sid=10297779

 

 

Frasco/Verzasca valley

And here a link to a video about Ascona and what happened to the Ticinesi who remained here!

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/swiss-italian_migrations/video.html?siteSect=22545&sid=10403410

Sonogno/fresco

And here is the video and story about AUNT ADELINA’S gnocchi.

more about “Aunt Adelina’s gnocchi“, posted with vodpod

Mrs. Tognola emigrated to California at the beginning of the twentiest century. She had taken a cook book with her from her familiy in Grono. Adelina got married in America, had 2 children and came back only once. After her ninetieth birthday she decided to return that cook book to her grandniece who also grew up in a restaurant like Adelina herself.

Watch now carefully how the gnocchis are being prepared by Madelena.

She uses onions, bacon, chop up, soak bread in milk, bind the dough, food mill, add bacon fat, nutmeg, flour, cutting board, form sausages, pillow shape, to fry in butter, boiling water, to come to the surface, grate cheese.

Here is also a link to the Pro Ticino Association http://www.proticino.ch/i/newsDetails.cfm?newsID=241