'Cake Boss' to visit Indy with a car-size cake
"Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro once made a NASCAR cake that weighed about 20,000 pounds. You could eat it, but you couldn't get behind the wheel. Valastro plans to rectify that situation when he rolls an example of his sweet sickness onto Monument Circle Friday. No, sorry, the Cake Boss is not making a full-size IndyCar cake with twin turbos u...
Cucina's little sister finally grows up
By Michele Parente Tracy Borkum was in a panic. "No, it's too soon!" the owner of Cucina Sorella cried out when she saw me come in to the restaurant. Borkum's long-awaited high-profile Kensington eatery had opened only a few days before, so yes, it was too soon to review it. I assured her that I was there more as an excited civi...
Gina Ventresca Carano: per gli americani fu “The voice of Abruzzo”
Gina Ventresca Carano nacque a Pratola Peligna (AQ) il 23 aprile del 1912. Sin da piccola mostrò una straordinaria propensione per la musica e il canto in particolare. Emigrò con i suoi genitori per gli Stati Uniti. In America un'insegnante disse ai suoi "Vostra figlia è un prodigio. Merita di seguire il suo istinto musicale." Studiò, con eccellen...
"Italians in California Agriculture: the Case of the Artichoke"
In the 1920's, a group of Italian American farmers in the San Francisco Bay area ventured south to the little town of Castroville (near Monterey) to plant a crop that was then regarded as a rare exotic - the artichoke. Today, still more than 85% of all artichokes grown in the United States come from these same plantings. Why artichokes and why Cast...
Alfred Grasso named man of the year by the Lido Civic Club of Washington D.C.
The Lido Civic Club of Washington, DC is an Italian-American civic organization serving the Washington Metropolitan, founded in 1929, has selected Mr. Alfred Grasso as 2013 Man of the Year. Mr. Grasso, Chief Executive Officer of Mitre Corporation and the Chairman of the Board of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) I...
USA - Il cappello nel cinema, artigiani toscani a Los Angeles
Inaugurazione in vista per la mostra "Hats on Film/Il cappello nel cinema" che aprirà i battenti a Los Angeles il 19 febbraio. Ad ospitare l'esposizione, promossa da Artigianato e Palazzo e il consorzio "Il cappello di Firenze", saranno le sale dell'Istituto italiano di cultura che daranno spazio all'istallazione di centinaia di cappelli di paglia,...
L'italiano che ha creato un'icona americana
Uno dei prodotti più popolari in America negli anni '50 è stato senza dubbio il "vagone rosso", immortalato anche in uno dei disegni del grande illustratore Norman Rockwell. A creare il Radio Flyer, cioé il carrettino rosso noto a tutti i ragazzi americani nati negli anni '40, fu Antonio Pasin, un veneziano emigrato negli USA nel 1913, all'etá di 1...
NEW YORK PRIZE 2013
One Night only Exhibition of New York Prize 2013 Winnners Anna Franceschini and Francesco Arena. Anna Franceschini presents: For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-Show / Act II Francesco Arena presents: One and 2974 persons RSVP: events.iicnewyork.esteri.it or aj211@columbia.edu Info &nbs...
From Olive Oil to Aerospace
Italy is full of surprises. Take Foligno, a pre-Roman riverside town in Umbria, which is traditionally famous for its olive harvest and quaint farmhouses. This same town serves as the Italian headquarters of the Umbra Group, a global champion supplier of quality precision hardware used in the aerospace, industrial and biomedical industries. Founded...
Il fisico Leonardo Rastelli vince il premio Fondazione Guggenheim
Montecatini 23 aprile 2013 - Il montecatinese Leonardo Rastelli, docente di fisica all'università statale di New York, ha vinto la borsa di studio della fondazione John Simon Guggenheim, unico premiato nel suo campo di ricerca.
National Italian Flag Throwing Team Performs in Washington
The National Italian Flag Throwing Team (Nazionale Italiana Sbandieratori) was in Washington this Mother's Day Weekend where they performed at the Italian Embassy on Saturday and at the Casa Italiana Cultural Center on Sunday. Fonte: Ciao Washington
Italian Festival comes to Rose Tree Park on Sunday
Delaware County Council of Delaware County has declared Sunday, June 2, 2013, to be Italian American Heritage Day in celebration of The Year of Italian Culture in America. The fourth annual Italian American Heritage Festival to be held from noon to 6 p.m. in Rose Tree Park on June 2 will celebrate the heritage and culture of Americans of I...