“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” The Godfather

Some of the most memorable scenes in American pop culture involve wiseguys cooking: Paul Sorvino slicing garlic with a razor in Goodfellas, Clemenza making meatballs in The Godfather, every ziti scene in The Sopranos. Every Italian-American man knows the joy of cooking a great meal for his family.  Caramelizing onions in olive oil, frying battered zucchini blossoms, turning a cheap flank steak into a mouth-watering tagliata.

And we ask ourselves the question: WHY DON’T MORE AMERICAN MEN COOK? While American men are cooking more than they did in the past, they still lag far behind American women when it comes to cooking for their families. Much like racketeering, this is a crime. And the punishment is doing some hard time in the kitchen. In this fresh new TV show we send the East Coast’s funniest wiseguys to American homes to give the men of the house a colorful crash course in cooking like “one of the boys.”