See who’s dishin’ Italian! Born and raised in Binghamton, NY, I come from a long line of Neapolitan Italian cooks. My story, and that of Linda’s Italian Table, truly began over a century ago in 1905 in Casale di Carinola, Italy, a small town near Naples, where my father, Attilio, was born. At age 7, he journeyed across the Atlantic, with his family, to Ellis Island aboard the ship, “The Stampalia”, joining his father,  Arcangelo, a butcher, by trade. As he grew, Attilio learned much about meat and cooking from his father, who learned from his father…you get the idea. ….