The long-awaited cookbook of Italian family favourites from Giuseppina, Carmela and Angela - aka the take-no-prisoners mammas from the record-breaking comedy sensation Sooshi Mango.
Sooshi Mango is an Australian-Sicilian comedy sensation. Melbourne-based, they are brothers Joe and Carlo Salanitri and their high-school best friend, Andrew Manfre. The trio started out making car videos a decade ago and quickly struck a chord. Their audience has grown exponentially through skits, videos and acts that pay homage to their experiences growing up in Australia in an Italian family surrounded by other European migrant cultures. The name Sooshi Mango dates to 2015 – when Joe's young son was shouting the words, which mean nothing and everything; it appealed to them because it doesn't say ethnic. Food is at the heart of a lot of what they do and their mamma characters – Giuseppina, Carmela and Angela – are especially beloved. The boys have a restaurant in Melbourne's Lygon Street, Carlton (Johnny, Vince and Sam's Ristorante, named after their ethnic dads characters), a wine label of the same name, and a podcast called Saucy Meatballs, now named Sooshi Mango podcast.
