"I think you preserve your culture by doing more than eating Italian food. We get hung up on our cuisine which is the best in the world and forget that there are other things that come out of Italy. There's history, there's literature, there's music, there's art, there's sculpture, there's poetry, there's all these things which make an identity of a people, that makes an identity different from another culture. And by saying Vermont Italian Cultural Association, you open it up to other people who might not be of Italian background."