Fine Italian Inspired Food
Now open in Roseville, Ciao Restaurant brings classic and contemporary Italian dishes with a stylish modern American take to our area. Front and center in the dining room is owner/manager Miranda, hailing from the medieval city of Lucca in the heart of Italy's Tuscany region, Miranda has extensive restaurant experience and is a master of customer s...
Brooklyn To Hollywood To THE GODFATHER: Johnny Martino Has A Story To Tell
Hands down, The Godfather is one of the most iconic films in history. Its individual performances are among the most-admired, its lines are among the most-quoted and its themes, among the most-imitated. It was nominated for 10-total Oscars, winning three, including Best Picture and Best Actor, on the heels of a brilliant performance by Marlon Brand...
LA Italian film fest to fete Bertolucci
This year's Los Angeles Italia Film Fest is to fete legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci on the 30th anniversary of his multi-Oscar triumph at the Oscars with The Last Emperor. "It will be a sincere and dutiful homage to the legendary maestro whom all of Hollywood still adores today," said fest founder Pascal Vicedomini.
Italian Trade Agency focuses on consumers
Expectations are very positive, as this is the first show of 2018 after the closing of a very good 2017 for the exports of Italian food and wine to the US. This is what Maurizio Forte, Director of the Italian Trade Agency in New York, told Italianfood.net at the Winter Fancy Food Show 2018 in San Francisco. As for US buyers at the exhibition, Mr. F...
Italian coffee magic is back in Jackson
Ah, the cafe latte; it’s the creamy craft of roasted beans, steam and foam in a way that warms the spirit. Few sounds are more heartening on a winter morning than a barista pulling an espresso shot, steam-firing a cup of milk and then swirling the white sheen and foam straight into a cup of dark coffee concentrate. A true cafe latte is a thing of b...
The New Coastal Italian Restaurant in the Beverly Center Is Way Better Than You’d Expect
An eight-level behemoth parked at the intersection of San Vicente and La Cienega, the Beverly Center has never exactly enticed as a dining destination during its three decades. That is, until the arrival of Cal Mare—the shopping mall’s ritzy new street-level restaurant that debuted as part of an ongoing $500 million renovation. With its 8,200-squar...
A chat with Valeria Rumori: a new year full of events for the Italian Cultural Institute in L.A.
Not only Hollywood, but culture, fashion, entrepreneurship and good food as well. Los Angeles is no longer just the world capital of cinema. And the Italian Cultural Institute seems to be aware of it. At the beginning of the new year, we had a chance to interview IIC Director Valeria Rumori about her goals for 2018 in the many fields where the Inst...
Reading the Language of Reality: Pier Paolo Pasolini
When: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 At 6:30 pm - Where: Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles - Organized by : IIC - Entrance : Free Authors Gian Maria Annovi (winner of the Ennio Flaiano Internetional Prize for Italian Studies) and Christopher Domingues Micheal will discuss the work of Italian world-renowned writer and filmaker Pier Paolo Paso...
I Only Wanted to Live
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Italian Cultural Institute - 601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F - San Francisco (CA). Free Admission | RSVP. I Only Wanted to Live. In Commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance DayNine Italian citizens survive deportation and internment in the Auschwitz death camps. Nine stories through which we...
Columbus Day Is Out, Indigenous Peoples Day Is In
San Francisco joined a nationwide movement to honor Native Americans in lieu of the explorer whose arrival brought on many of their deaths. The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 on Tuesday afternoon to bump out Columbus Day on the second Monday of October and edge in Indigenous Peoples Day, the San Franciso Examiner reports. It took after the San Fra...
Nick L. Girimonte: 1920 – 2017
As a young boy growing up in Dunsmuir during the Great Depression, Nicola “Nick” Girimonte helped put food on the family table by selling fruit to Southern Pacific railroad passengers. That initiative, work ethic and an early understanding of customer service emerged as hallmarks of Nick’s long and productive life. Nick, who partnered with his brot...
The Extraordinary Renaissance Court of Malatesta
The conference comemorates the six-houndredth anniversary of the birth of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini, who occupied a central position in the history of the Italian Renaissance. Organaized by Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA) and Bryan Keene (The J. Paul Getty Museum), in collaboration with the IIC Los Angeles. Advanced regist...