“Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.” CountryPaperCirclesConcentrationOther CountriesCompassNaplesPompeiiCapri Author:Diego Della Valle
“My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.” UsedMotherParentDoorsSellingFactoriesGrandfatherHis LoveMy GrandfatherPastaFood LoveNaples Author:Giada De Laurentiis
“I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.” StarsRocksStoresCooksGrandfatherChefRock StarMy GrandfatherGourmetNaples Author:Giada De Laurentiis
“I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.” LittlesSpeakLanguageBitsDadLittle BitYeahMy DadItalianMumCocktailsDialectNaples Author:Luke Pasqualino
“I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.” ThinkingKnowsGrewGeniusHusbandGrew UpCooksQueensMy HusbandInterpretationItalianSouthernBrooklynSpaghettiNaplesMeatballs Author:Debi Mazar
“A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.” CitiesRichPagesBrilliantWitFixedSplendidBatteredNaples Author:Stacy Schiff
“I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.” HumansIdeasSpiritFightingCitiesIgnoranceMassConceptsPreparedIngredientsLinkedHuman SpiritNaples Author:Luciano De Crescenzo
“God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.” MadeRiversValleysSan FranciscoSwissNileBay AreaNaplesAlpsHudson River Author:Fiorello H. La Guardia