About
Angelo Biondo
Angelo wrote angelobiondo.com — “family & favorite recipes” — from August 2008 to June 2011. This page brings together what he wrote about himself and his recipes. His story, in the family’s words, is still to be written.
About my Recipes
The introduction Angelo wrote for the original site, reproduced in full. See the archived page.
Hi my name is Ang Biondo and I love to eat so I’m lucky that I also like to cook…
From the time I was about 4 years old my brothers and I would be in the kitchen with my Grandma DeGeorge, who hardly spoke a word of English, helping her cook while my mother was at work. I have tried hard to translate her … little bit of this and a pinch of that instructions into recipies that would make her proud… after 65 years of trying I don’t think I will ever do her justice … but these are the one’s I’ve enjoyed the most through the years and make me think of her every time I taste them. Enjoy!
— Ang Biondo
Angelo’s story
From his writing
A few things Angelo mentioned about his own life, in his words. A fuller biography will be added by the family.
To be restored
A photograph of Angelo
From the family’s collection.
Growing up as a kid, times were tough – the effects of the Great Depression left many scares and we were in the middle of World War II, food, gas, tires and a whole lot of necessities of life were rationed and people made do with what they had or improvised.Living in western New York we’re fortunate to border Canada, home of the Swiss Chalet Restaurant based chain.We use to have a 24’ travel trailer and would make the rounds at various camp sites throughout western New York all summer long. With six youngsters this was our way of having a summer vacation each year.To be restored
Angelo’s biography
Where he grew up, his family, his work and his life in the kitchen — to be written by the family.
About the recipes
How the recipes came down to him
Grandma DeGeorge cooked without written recipes. Angelo spent years putting numbers to them — and wrote down where the others came from.
As I have stated before, she never used a written recipe, she came from the “Little of this and a little of that” school, so once again I’ve done my best to put numbers to the recipe.My father and Grand-father used to take us out in the spring of the year to harvest bushels of burdock. We would drive out to the country and search for them along hedge rows dividing the farmer’s fields.The yeast recipe is a family recipe and the other I’m not sure where it came from, but has been in the family archives for a number of years.Recipe cards and family photographs
Places for the originals: handwritten cards, kitchen photographs and family pictures, as the family shares them.
To be restored
Handwritten recipe card
Scans of cards in Angelo’s or his family’s hand.
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Grandma DeGeorge’s recipes
Any written trace of her recipes, if one survives.
To be restored
Historical photographs
The family, the kitchen, the table.
About the archive
Restoring angelobiondo.com
The original pages survive as captures in the Internet Archive, and each entry here is transcribed from one. So far 27 of its 29 posts are restored and 2 more are known by title.
The site, as the archive records it
- August 2008The earliest month in the original site’s archive list: angelobiondo.com is publishing.
- April 9, 2009Sicilian Easter Bread — “The yeast recipe is a family recipe.”
- September 25, 2009Calamari (Squid) Recipes, with three of Grandma DeGeorge’s.
- June 5, 2011The newest post on the site: S’mores, after a server move.
- September 5, 2012The Internet Archive captures the site. These captures are the source of this restoration.
- To be addedFamily dates and milestones, supplied by the family.
How it’s being restored
- His words stay his. Introductions, stories, asides and spelling are transcribed exactly. Nothing is rewritten or modernized.
- Every entry names its source. Each recipe page ends with where and when it was published, the capture it came from, and anything that wasn’t carried over.
- The family’s notes are kept separate. Corrections, memories and tips will be added as signed notes, never mixed into Angelo’s text.
To be restored
The original site
Screenshots of angelobiondo.com as it looked in its Modern Notepad theme.