The Italian Homemade Company Opens In Cow Hollow, May Expand In North Beach
Italian deli and market The Italian Homemade Company, which quickly became a North Beach favorite after opening a year ago at 716 Columbus St., has now opened a second location in Cow Hollow and is seeking to expand its original store. The storefronts adjacent to The Italian Homemade Company, from 718 to 722 Columbus St., are currently vacant: Nor...
La Mia Strada – My Road Documentary Exploration of Italian American identity
Youngstown History Center of Industry and Labor - 151 West Wood Street, Youngstown, Ohio 44503. Screening - September 24 @ 5pm: La Mia Strada – My Road. Documentary Exploration of Italian American identity. Director, Michael Angelo DiLauro La Mia Strada (My Road) is a compelling exploration of ethnicity and cu...
“I think he is the greatest scholar of American culture” - Fred Gardaphe on Don DeLillo
by Ronan Breathnach In an interview with Maria Nadotti in 1993 Don DeLillo said, "I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist". Over an impressive career he has written novels looking at everything from global terrorism and economics to maths, art, and language. Given this wide range of subject matter covered in his books th...
WWII and the day Papa Vincenzo had to surrender his beloved radio
by Cookie Curci As a young Italian American, my childhood was filled with stories, stories that boasted colorful characters, lively dialogue, wonderful settings and, best of all, each story taught me a valuable lesson. Children's story books you say? No. Although I did my share of reading the fanciful illustrated fairy tales and...
Q+A: Celebrated Italian restaurant Carbone is ready for Las Vegas
By Robin Leach One of the most eagerly awaited new restaurants of the fall is set to open Monday at Aria. Food critics and fans alike have described Carbone's original New York location as the best Italian-American restaurant of all time. Named the restaurant of the year and the decade, Carbone has received nothing but five-...
Q&A: Frankie Avalon chats about his new Italian cookbook
by Molly Eichel Singer and actor Frankie Avalon returned to his Italian Market roots last year to gather ingredients from the likes of Cannuli's Meats and Claudio's with his childhood pal Jerry Blavat for his first cookbook, Frankie Avalon's Italian Family Cookbook (St. Martin's Press, $24.99). In the book, Avalon shares recipes f...
Honoring Kansas City Italians! Jasper Mirabile
Today we honor Jasper Mirabile, Sr. of Jasper's Restaurant & Marco Polo's Italian Market. Please read the following hisory of Jasper's taken from www.JaspersKC.com. In 1954, a small neighborhood Italian restaurant and bar was opened in Kansas City by Leonardo Mirabile and his son, Jasper. The restaurant, named Jasper's, quickly became a popula...
Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin Bets on U.S. Market, Watches for Growth
Bulgari is betting on the U.S. market, innovation, and a reinvestment in of one of its most popular designs to bolster its bottom line. Jean-Christophe Babin, chief executive officer of the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned jeweler, told WWD while in New York to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the house's Bulgari watch style that, "when...
Morto Dan Fante, figlio di John
di Cinzia Fiori «Mi chiamo Bruno Dante e vi racconto come andarono veramente le cose». È l'incipit di Angeli a pezzi (edito da Marcos y Marcos nel 1999), il più bel romanzo di Dan Fante, quello che lo ha reso famoso. Ossia una narrazione al galoppo, feroce, intensa, dolorosa anche quando è esilarante, dedicata alle sue disavventure e alla...
Friends of FAI: Spreading Awareness of Italy’s Cultural Heritage in the U.S.
by Silvia Donati Italy has the largest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites - 51 - but that number doesn't even begin to quantify the immense (too immense to handle?) heritage of a country that, even in its most remote places, boasts some kind of historical or artistic treasure. The issue of how to safeguard Italy's - at times cr...
Here Are All the Roads That Lead to Rome
All road might not technically lead to Rome—but, if you happen to be in Europe, the majority of them do. In a new infographic, designers Philipp Schmitt, Benedikt Groß, and Raphael Reimann set out to answer the centuries-old question of: Do all roads actually lead to the Italian capital? To find the answer, the designers began by crun...
Lucia, an Italian restaurant, comes to downtown from North Carolina
by Mark Antonation A new Italian restaurant is coming to downtown Denver. Lucia, a concept from North Carolina's Urban Food Group, is currently under construction at 1550 17th Street. That's right between Common Groundsand Rockmount Ranch Wear, in case you're having difficulty envisioning to location, which was not previously a re...