Pictured left: BKH's first annual St. Joseph Altar displayed last year, March 17th and 18th, 2016. In Bread and Respect, authors Jerome J. Salomone and A.V. Margavio write, of a conservatively estimated 32,000 Italian immigrants who settled in Louisiana between 1870-1930, an astounding 90% were Sicilian [1]. Today, 200,000 Sicilian descendants reside in the New Orleans area [2]. It is safe to assume therefore that many, if not most, of the the Italian traditions now practiced