Interview with Joseph P. Bologna, May 3, 2018
Project: Savor: Immigrant Entrepreneur Oral History Project
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Joe Bologna discusses growing up in Michigan and watching both sets of grandparents who immigrated from Italy speak English with a foreign accent. His paternal grandparents would roll out pasta for over fifty family members on weekends. Bologna then joined the military, and became a troop cook stationed in Vietnam. He talks about moving to Lexington as a personal chef to a General, and later opening Joe Bologna's Italian Restaurant and buying the church which houses it today.Interview Accession
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Michigan Italy Italian food family military chef entrepreneur Lexington, Kentucky grandparents cookInterview Rights
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Bologna, Joseph P. Interview by Vanessa Grossl. 03 May. 2018. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Bologna, J.P. (2018, May 03). Interview by V. Grossl. Savor: Immigrant Entrepreneur Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Bologna, Joseph P., interview by Vanessa Grossl. May 03, 2018, Savor: Immigrant Entrepreneur Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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