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Sicilians from Queens New York! All first generation, all brought up the same. We bring EVERYTHING to table, from cooking to stories, to comedy, philosophy (pretty much anything we think and do) to bring you into our world. Sit back and have fun with us!
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- 3 days ago1h 3m
Olive Branch Markets - Sicilian Roots Florida Grown!
You know us—get us talking about Sicily, family, and good food, and we’ve got plenty to say!🫒This week on the Italians Sicilians Do It Better Podcast, we’re joined by Gia Caiozzo Gilchrist of Olive Branch Markets. From her Brooklyn and Sicilian roots to bringing her family’s olive oil traditions to Florida, Gia’s story brings together heritage, hard work, and pride in where you come from.We’re talking family, Sicilian traditions, olive oil, and carrying a piece of home into the life you build here. Pull up a chair and join us!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/italians-sicilians-do-it-better-podcast--5871137/support.Listen, Watch & Follow:🎥 Full video episodes on YouTube🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter🛍️ Shop merch: ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter.com👉 New episodes drop Tuesdays at 11AM
- 2 weeks ago49 min
Are real friendships and old-school values disappearing?
Are real friendships becoming a thing of the past?Frank kicks off this week's episode with a question that gets Gee and Enza talking: Do people even know how to be genuine friends anymore?From jealousy and competition to people only coming around when they need something or want access to your connections, the crew gets into what friendship looks like today.Gee shares why he believes most social media friendships aren't genuine and why, at this point in his life, he might be too old to start making new friends anyway!Enza joins the conversation about how easily people turn cold toward one another, before shifting into another topic we can all relate to: raising kids today versus how we were raised.Were our parents too strict, or did that old-school upbringing teach us the respect and values that seem to be missing today?Another episode of **Italians Sicilians Do It Better Podcast**, filled with real conversations, different opinions, and plenty of laughs!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/italians-sicilians-do-it-better-podcast--5871137/support.Listen, Watch & Follow:🎥 Full video episodes on YouTube🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter🛍️ Shop merch: ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter.com👉 New episodes drop Tuesdays at 11AM
- Oct 13, 202657 min
The Story of Chef Luca Corleone
Chef Luca Corleone joins us for a great conversation about food, culture, reinvention, and what it really means to serve authentic regional Italian cuisine.Before becoming Chef Luca Corleone, Luca Fontanarosa spent more than 25 years in the technology industry, eventually becoming a Chief Technology Officer. But the food and traditions he grew up with in Catania, Sicily never left him. After retiring from the tech world, Luca went to culinary school, gained restaurant experience, and followed a dream that had been years in the making.In 2018, he opened Ristorante Corleone in Port St. Lucie, Florida, with a very different vision from the typical Italian-American restaurant. You won’t find the usual chicken parm-style menu here. Chef Luca focuses on authentic regional Italian dishes, traditional techniques, imported ingredients, and recipes that tell the stories of different parts of Italy. We talk about taking the leap from technology to the kitchen, building a restaurant from the ground up, surviving the difficult COVID years, and growing from a small family-run restaurant into the newly expanded Ristorante Chef Luca Corleone in Riverland.And of course, we have plenty of laughs along the way—including Frank asking the question everyone wants answered: how exactly did Luca Fontanarosa become “Chef Luca Corleone”?This episode is about much more than food. It’s about tradition, passion, taking risks, and turning the flavors of your childhood into something people can experience one plate at a time.#ChefLucaCorleone #LucaCorleone #ChefLuca #ItalianChef #SicilianChef #CataniaSicily #ItalianCuisine #AuthenticItalianFood #RegionalItalianCuisine #ItalianRestaurant #PortStLucieFlorida #PortSaintLucieRestaurant #RistoranteChefLucaCorleone #SicilianFood #ItalianFoodPodcast #ItalianAmericanPodcast #SicilianPodcast #ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter #ItalianCulture #SicilianCulture #ItalianTraditions #ChefInterview #RestaurantOwner #CulinaryJourney #ItalianFineDiningBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/italians-sicilians-do-it-better-podcast--5871137/support.Listen, Watch & Follow:🎥 Full video episodes on YouTube🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter🛍️ Shop merch: ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter.com👉 New episodes drop Tuesdays at 11AM
- Sep 29, 202647 min
Italian Superstitions & Family Debate - Who Had it Harder?
Do you really believe in superstitions—or do you follow them just in case? 😂 Gee kicks things off with Frank and Enza sharing the sayings and traditions they grew up with. Will the next generation keep them alive? Enza doesn’t think so, Frank’s 50/50, and they all agree: this goes way beyond Italian culture!Then Enza makes a claim that has the guys thinking: she’s never seen a loaf of bread go moldy… it just gets hard. Is she onto something?! Meanwhile, Gee lays down the law: buy hot, fresh semolina bread, and one loaf isn’t making it home.The crew also dives into the flood of responses to Frank’s recent viral video: “Who had it worse—us or our parents?” From paychecks to home prices and loans, the different perspectives spark a conversation about how life has changed between generations.Join Frank, Enza, and Gee for plenty of laughs, a little debate, and a look at the brand-new studio!Drop a comment: which superstition are you still keeping alive—and who do YOU think had it worse?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/italians-sicilians-do-it-better-podcast--5871137/support.Listen, Watch & Follow:🎥 Full video episodes on YouTube🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter🛍️ Shop merch: ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter.com👉 New episodes drop Tuesdays at 11AM
- Sep 15, 202658 min
Are We the Last Generation Raised the Right Way?
Frank kicks this episode off HOT with one question that makes the whole room go quiet:“Are we the last generation that was raised the right way?”😳 And from there… it’s ON. Frank talks about growing up before everyone lived on their phones, before social media controlled everything, and when kids spent more time actually living life outside. Enza agrees — but Marcus isn’t letting her off that easy. 😂 Gee has his own take: maybe kids today aren’t necessarily worse… maybe technology has just made everything easier. Then Enza flips the conversation to entitlement: “I feel this, I feel that!” — which leads Marcus to point out that parenting has definitely changed because apparently we’re not putting kids through sheetrock walls anymore.😂 And just when everyone thinks the debate is settling down, Frank drops another one: “What’s something WE did growing up that would NEVER fly today?” Now the stories really start coming out. Some of it is hilarious. Some gets serious. Some will probably have you saying, “Yep, we did that too!” Were we actually raised better? Were our parents just tougher? Or is every generation convinced the next generation has it too easy? Frank, Gee, Marcus & Enza go at it — disagreeing, laughing, breaking balls and somehow making a serious conversation feel like a party.Italians Sicilians Do It Better Podcast Full video on YouTube. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/italians-sicilians-do-it-better-podcast--5871137/support.Listen, Watch & Follow:🎥 Full video episodes on YouTube🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter🛍️ Shop merch: ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter.com👉 New episodes drop Tuesdays at 11AM
- Sep 1, 202659 min
Johnny Potenza: Born to Break Balls | Old School Italians vs. 2026
Johnny Potenza joins the guys on this Episode— and the ball breaking starts before we can even properly open the show. 😂Frank kicks things off with an important question: Who breaks more balls in the five boroughs?Johnny, a self-proclaimed Top 5 Ball Breaker in Staten Island, takes us through the old-school Brooklyn and Staten Island art of breaking chops, the nicknames everybody had growing up, and the stories behind how some of those names actually came to be.But the conversation quickly becomes something bigger: What happened to the way we used to interact with each other?Johnny tells us about watching a guy approach a woman at the beach, ask for her social-media handle, exchange information and walk away. No real conversation. No getting to know each other. Just, "What's your handle?" and they'll talk online later. That sends us down the rabbit hole.Phone calls became texts. Meeting people became following people. Hanging out at the mall became sitting at home scrolling. Film became digital. VHS disappeared. And somehow, it feels like everything—and everyone—is online now.We even ask the question: If our old-school Italian parents had to raise kids in 2026, would they survive? 😂Frank and Johnny also get into how much society has changed, from the things we got away with as kids to the way policing and consequences have changed today.And then Frank drops the question that opens up one of the best conversations of the episode: What's the difference between REAL Italians and "Instagram Italians"?Old-school stories, Italian-American culture, Brooklyn vs. Staten Island, nicknames, VHS, dating, social media, raising kids, plenty of laughs—and plenty of ball breaking.This is one of those conversations that feels like sitting around the table with the guys.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/italians-sicilians-do-it-better-podcast--5871137/support.Listen, Watch & Follow:🎥 Full video episodes on YouTube🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter🛍️ Shop merch: ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter.com👉 New episodes drop Tuesdays at 11AM
- Aug 18, 20261h 7m
What Makes You REALLY Sicilian? Ms. Siciliana Returns & Holds NOTHING Back!
Ms. Siciliana is BACK for Round 2 and this one goes off the rails FAST! 😂Nancee returns to the *Italians Sicilians Do It Better Podcast*, and from the minute we get started, Marcus decides to poke the bear. Are Sicilian women more traditional or more outspoken? According to Nancee, men just have **selective hearing**! 😂 Marcus keeps pushing, Nancee keeps firing back, and Frank is literally in tears laughing.We get into whether **Sicilian men are really built different… or if we’re all just LOUD**, how dating and meeting people has completely changed from the way we grew up, and we kick it back to the good old days when family, traditions, and being together meant everything. TThen Frank and Nancee get into a conversation that hits close to home: **What makes someone a “real” Italian?**The people who actually speak the language, know the traditions, dance the dances, cook the food, and live the culture sometimes get overlooked — while people who exaggerate or mock Italian culture can rack up millions of views. Has social media reached the point where people would rather watch entertainment than authenticity?And then comes the bigger question…Italians criticize Italian Americans. Italian Americans criticize each other. Italians even criticize other Italians — so who gets to decide what makes someone Italian?**Culture? Language? Blood? Traditions? Where you were born? Or how you were raised?It’s a conversation about **Sicilians, Italian Americans, dating, family, tradition, social media, authenticity and identity** — with plenty of arguments, stories, shots fired and nonstop laughs along the way.Ms. Siciliana returns, Marcus has way too much courage, Nancee comes prepared with the comebacks, and Frank can barely keep it together. Another episode that feels less like an interview and more like sitting around the table with family.😂Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/italians-sicilians-do-it-better-podcast--5871137/support.Listen, Watch & Follow:🎥 Full video episodes on YouTube🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter🛍️ Shop merch: ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter.com👉 New episodes drop Tuesdays at 11AM
- Aug 4, 20261h 3m
Maria Venuto Is Back! We Talk Going Viral, Trolls & Keeping It Real
Maria Venuto is back in the studio! Joining Frank, Marcus, and Enza for another fun-filled episode, the laughs start immediately as Frank jumps right into Maria's viral success with her hit song "Angels in the Snow," which even made it onto the radio. Maria shares how it all happened, how social media has changed her life, and why she's finally enjoying being herself online—even her students are now cheering her on and giving her ideas for future videos!The conversation shifts to the darker side of social media, where Frank calls out the countless "ghost" accounts that exist only to criticize and humiliate others. But instead of letting the negativity win, the crew explains why ignoring the trolls is often the best response—and how loyal supporters usually step in to defend you. Sometimes, those same comments even help push your videos to a bigger audience... so maybe the trolls deserve a sarcastic "thank you!"The group also dives into a conversation many Italian-Americans can relate to: why are authentic Italians sometimes labeled as "fake," while people who completely butcher the culture get praised? Frank shares his thoughts on why entertainment often wins over authenticity, leading to an honest discussion about preserving heritage in today's social media world.As always, the episode wouldn't be complete without plenty of laughs. Marcus reveals his unusual tanning secret involving beer, the crew reminisces about growing up in Sicilian households where English and Sicilian blended together, shares memories of the old days, and wraps things up with one of the biggest Italian family debates of them all...Do you fry your meatballs first, or do they go straight into the sauce?It's another episode packed with laughs, nostalgia, honest conversations, and plenty of Italian-American family moments you won't want to miss.It's another episode packed with laughs, nostalgia, honest conversations, and plenty of Italian-American family moments you won't want to miss.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/italians-sicilians-do-it-better-podcast--5871137/support.Listen, Watch & Follow:🎥 Full video episodes on YouTube🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music & iHeartRadio📲 Follow us on Instagram: @ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter🛍️ Shop merch: ItaliansSiciliansDoItBetter.com👉 New episodes drop Tuesdays at 11AM
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