One of the first signs of spring in Rhode Island is zeppole returning to bakery shelves. While the main day to eat zeppole is St. Joseph's Day, which falls on March 19, the cream-filled pastries start ...

March 19 in Rhode Island is all about zeppole, a pastry some say is in the shape of St. Joseph’s hammer. It's his feast day that is celebrated this week. It used to be that zeppole could only be had ...

Don DePettrillo wasn't making zeppole with a variety of fillings when he opened his first bakery in Providence in 1967. That's all changed now with zeppole available in six varieties at his Original ...

Zeppole di San Giuseppe is a fried dough specialty that was created to celebrate the festival of St. Joseph, a patron saint of Sicily. Every March 19th, Italians remember St. Joseph by celebrating ...

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — It’s that time of year again, when Rhode Islanders head to the Original Italian Bakery in droves to pick up some zeppole ahead of St. Joseph’s Day. The zeppola is a St.

While St. Patrick's Day, with its soda bread, green beer and corned beef and cabbage, seems to garner much of the attention in mid-March, another saint has a feast day with its own food traditions. St ...

San Giuseppe Day, also known as Saint Joseph's Day or the Feast of Saint Joseph, the Catholic feast day for father for Jesus' father, is celebrated on Mar. 19. A kind of extra Father's Day, it is ...