“The Zampognari”
By Rosario Mariani December 8th is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and Italy officially prepares for il Santo Natale. In most of Southern Italy, it is quite common to see the zampognari playing Christmas carols in grottoes, shrines and other religious places throughout the area. As Americans, we associate the bagpipes with...
Chesterland chef Loretta Paganini takes Christmas dinner menu from her native Italy
By Debbi Snook While our Thanksgiving dinners are trussed up in American traditions, Christmas leaves a little wiggle room for overseas adventure. If you aren't already wedded to your usual ham, fish or another turkey, anything goes – as long as it sparkles. Add an ethnic twist – let's say Italian – and you can plunge into the col...
Seduced by Bologna: Interview with Writer Mary Tolaro Noyes
by Silvia Donati "When I refer to discovering Bologna, I admit to an ongoing seduction by her unique past and modern charm, not the least of which are the Bolognesi themselves." Mary Tolaro Noyes's love affair with the city of Bologna began in 1994. That year, Mary, who lives in San Francisco, decided she'd learn Italian in o...
Emilia-Romagna is the most virtuous region in spending EU funds
by Chiara Bussi Emilia-Romagna has been the only Italian region to accomplish expenditure's certification targets for EU funds 2007-2013 for both European Social Fund (ESF) and Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This information comes from the Observatory Il Sole 24 Ore-Clas Group which has analyzed the latest data and compared them with go...
Screening of "BlaxploItalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema" by Fred Kudjo Kuwornu
Tuesday, February 2nd at 6pm - Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago - Join film director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu as he presents his latest documentary. Question and answers will follow.BlaxploItalian is a documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers seldom heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema. BlaxploItal...
A Michelin-starred chef is leaving Copenhagen’s Noma to revolutionize American school lunches
by Jenny Anderson After working as head chef at Noma, the famed two-Michelin-star restaurant in Copenhagen, Dan Guisti is taking on an even bigger challenge: school lunches in America. Giusti, an Italian-American born in New Jersey, founded a for-profit food service company called Brigaid that hopes to work with school districts a...
Monteverde brings taste of Italy to West Loop with homemade pasta
There are dozens of Italian restaurants in Chicago, but only a small percentage go that extra mile and make all of their pastas in-house from scratch. A new restaurant in the West Loop is committed to hand-making everything, including one pasta dish that has become a personal favorite. When Sarah Grueneberg left Spiaggia, she took wit...
Think Italian cookies are too dry, too plain? You just need coffee or wine or some deep family ties
Expressions of Italian heritage this time of year are usually not subtle. It's the heaping helping of pastaand sauce, the zooma-zooma music of Louis Prima, the St. Joseph's Day parade filling the streets. In such bold and bodacious company, the traditional Italian cookie that's so much a part of the seasoncan seem plain, humble and maybe even home...
IV edizione del Premio Internazionale GRADIVA NEW YORK (2016)
La rivista GRADIVA bandisce la quarta edizione del Premio Internazionale Gradiva. Al Premio si concorre con un libro di poesia in lingua italiana, pubblicato fra gennaio 2015 e aprile 2016. I libri partecipanti al Premio non saranno restituiti. Non è prevista alcuna quota di partecipazione. I partecipanti possono facoltativamente iscriversi, in fo...
2016 Sons of Italy road race and walk
Join us on Saturday May 28, 2016 for the return of the Methuen Sons of Italy 5k road race! Beginning at 11:00am from the Methuen Sons of Italy at 459 Merrimack Street in Methuen, shirts to the first 200 registered, post race refreshments, cash prizes to first 3 male and female finishers and awards across all ages groups to 80+, Military Division (a...
America's First Urbani Truffle Lab Opens In NYC
Urbani Truffles USA, the world's leading truffle purveyor, announced the opening of its newest venture -- Truffle Lab NYC. The Lab will act as a creative concept, test kitchen and tasting room with an ultimate goal of bringing new experiences to truffle lovers in the heart of the big city. Under the guidance of the VP of Global Marketing, Sabrina...
Gardner Museum to host talk on Italian migration to Central Mass.
Fitchburg State University Professor Teresa Fava Thomas will present a program on migration from Italy to Central Massachusetts at The Gardner Museum on Thursday, May 12. The presentation will explore traditional life in the mountains above Venice, Italy, and the reasons why people migrated to Central Massachusetts between 1880 and 1920. The talk...