Do As The Italians Do And Use This Leafy Green As A New Addition To Your Pizza Toppings
A lot of pizza tips and tricks circulating the internet typically call for simple steps like using a butter brush to improve a frozen pizza's crust, or list just a few ingredients to create a more traditional pizza sauce from scratch. And these are terrific techniques for achieving something closer to a restaurant-quality pizza at home. But there's...
Figli Di Colombo Presents 2025 Scholarship Awards
The Figli Di Colombo held their annual student scholarship awards dinner on Monday night at the club located on South Seventh Avenue. The name of the club translates to; “Sons of Columbus” and is made up of members with Italian bloodlines. The club has very strict guidelines on how students are selected to receive scholarships. This year, they awar...
Italy Reaffirms Its Position as World Pasta Champion
In 2024, 58% of Italy’s pasta production was exported, amounting to more than 2.42 million tonnes, a 9.1% increase from the previous year, according to data from Unione Italiana Food, based on Istat figures. The total value of these exports reached €4.02 billion, marking a 4.8% year-on-year rise. In practical terms, this equates to around 80 millio...
An Afternoon With Marcella Hazan
You likely know the name Marcella Hazan. Perhaps you’ve sampled recipes from the late Italian cook’s seven best-selling books, which are credited with teaching America how to prepare authentic, classic, and delicious Italian dishes. Her famously spare recipe for tomato sauce consists of one onion cut in half, canned tomatoes, a generous knob of but...
Tramezzino festival in Mestre celebrates Italian snack innovation and tradition
In Mestre, Veneto, a three-day festival celebrates an all-Italian snack, a forerunner of street food, the ultimate snack, a symbol of a quick break that combines taste and simplicity: the tramezzino. The origin of the tramezzino is debated between Turin in Piedmont and Mestre. The festival celebrates both the tradition and innovation of this small...
Welcome to Giro d’Italia 2025
Today begins the 2025 edition of the Giro d'Italia, the professional road cycling stage race that started in 1909. The leader of the Giro wears the pink jersey in honor of the color of Italy's most important sports newspaper, La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race allows you to experience beautiful landscapes across Italy, where athletes are hosted, an...
Meet the Mysterious Renaissance Muse Immortalized in the Only Leonardo da Vinci Painting in the Americas
Immortalized by Leonardo da Vinci in a 15th-century portrait now housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Ginevra de’ Benci was a celebrated beauty of the Italian Renaissance. Her likeness—the only da Vinci painting on permanent view in the Americas—was created with oil paints on a flat panel of wood between about 1474 and 1478. A...
Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà to Host First-Ever American Festival Dedicated to Monica Vitti
Iconic Italian star Monica Vitti is a stateside tribute with the posthumous festival “Monica Vitti: La Modernista,” presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà. The actress, who died in 2022, was immortalized onscreen with her famed collaborations with auteurs Michelangelo Antonioni and Luis Buñuel. Now, the 14-film series at FLC will be the...
Greener brewing: An Italian breakthrough could help protect the planet
Beer production has been long associated with clouds of steam and long hours of energy consumption. Could we ever imagine brewing beer without the need for boiling at 100 degrees for hours? A new Italian technology made that possible by offering breweries a way to cut their energy costs, reduce emissions and create a greener future by making the en...
Eataly is opening three new locations inside JFK Airport this year
Pack your passport and your appetite—Eataly is landing at JFK. The beloved Italian food emporium is bringing its signature pastas, pastries and prosciutto to three terminals at New York’s busiest international airport later this year. That’s right: Terminals 4, 5 and 8 will each get their own slice of la dolce vita, marking Eataly’s first foray int...
Gladiators Gate: Step into the Colosseum Like a True Gladiator
The roar of 50,000 spectators. The clang of swords. The rush of adrenaline as sunlight pours through the Colosseum’s upper tiers. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Rome’s fiercest warriors entered through a special passage—the Gladiators Gate—to face glory or doom on the arena floor. Today, that gate is closed to most. But what if you could step through it y...
Life in the ring and the movies with Joey Eye, boxing cutman
The this-should-be-made-into-a-movie life of Joey Eye began in 1969 in Palermo, Sicily, when his 14-year-old mother and 35-year-old father gave him up for adoption. He was sent to Philadelphia. He grew up as “a little curly-haired Italian kid” in a rough Irish-German neighborhood in North Philadelphia (“that built character”) and later found comfor...