by David Sands

Want to whip up some linguini covered with some amazing marinara sauce for an unforgettable Thursday evening meal? Looking for that jaw-dropping slice of pizza that'll absolutely blow your mind? Nearly everybody's familiar with the more famous staples of Italian cuisine like pasta and pizza; and there's a reason for that: Italian-Americans are well established in our region nowadays. But that wasn't always the case.

As a group, they were slow to get a foothold in the Detroit area. In 1900, there were only a few hundred Italian-Americans in Detroit, clustered in what we today refer to as the city's Eastern Market and Greektown neighborhoods. As a matter of fact, at the turn of the 20th century, there were only a few thousand of them living in the entire region.

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