Nebaletan Word of the Day — Cootz /Kootz Every Italian-American family had its own language.  Not “proper” Italian, not even proper Neapolitan sometimes — just words that somehow survived immigration, Sunday dinners, and decades of people yelling across kitchens. In our family, one of those words was COOTZ (or CUTZ).  It referred to the end piece of a loaf of … Continue reading Nebaletan Word of the Day — Cootz/Kootz