Resumen de Italian folk: : vernacular culture in Italian-American Lives
Three essays deal with ways in which italian Americans have altered the landscape. lara Pascali shows how a second kitchen in some italian American homes, situated in the base- ment rather than the formal kitchen upstairs, provides the social focus for domestic life. in fact, the upstairs kitchen often plays little role in food preparation but may be an important representative of the domestic unit's status. two monumental achievements in vernacular art by italian Americans in california offer kenneth Scambray an opportunity to show how their creators drew upon their geograph- ical backgrounds in italy for inspiration. while Simon rodia's watts towers in los Angeles is well known, not so familiar is the series of more than a hundred underground grottoes which baldassare Forestiere dug in Fresno.
