
Can San Gennaro Save New York City’s Little Italy?
Can San Gennaro Save NYC’s Little Italy? Chef Franco Lania hopes feast will unify and bring awareness and an uplift to the old struggling Italian neighborhood.

Can San Gennaro Save NYC’s Little Italy? Chef Franco Lania hopes feast will unify and bring awareness and an uplift to the old struggling Italian neighborhood.

Arancini di Riso better known as Italian rice balls or Risotto balls are an Italian-American favorite. Many Italian feasts serve a version of a rice ball. The largest feast and most well known is the feast of San Genaro in Little Italy, NYC where these rice balls are a yearly tradition.

At this point Little Italy is like a mother that gives and gives and never receives anything back in return from her children. Eventually she becomes old, run down and tired!