The actor who plays Bobby Bacala on "The Sopranos" celebrates Italian-American culture.

The larger focus is on the Italian-American culture as it's knitted together by the food.

Though she wasn't raised in the gum-snapping, working-class Italian-American culture that Adriana comes from, she does have a family connection.

Other topics included Sinatra and Italian-American culture, and Sinatra and civil rights.

Ms. Laurino is wrong to assert that "The Sopranos" represents "a masterly look at Italian-American culture."

Much of her work focuses on Italian-American culture, though she is also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar.

"If you don't like the way Italian-American culture is presented, come up with your own."

"Rossi's, in its last 20 years, 30 years, had really become this kind of repository and archive for Italian-American popular culture," he said.

The pimp or mack functions like the Mafia don in Italian-American culture.

To me, she is saying that this would be something that had to be created, as it did not exist in Italian-American culture outside "The Sopranos."