Italian police on the way
A visiting delegation of Italian police from Ariano Irpino will visit Media, Pa., on Oct. 8 and attend a block party in their honor at Ariano Restaurante Italiano. They will meet with officials of Media and the Delaware County Police Chiefs. The event will feature a pictorial retrospective of the history of the Delaware County Police. Acco...
Schiaparelli Lander Prepares for Touchdown on Mars
Almost three weeks after it crash-landed the Rosetta orbiter on a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up to land another spacecraft—this time on Mars. It hopes that a craft called Schiaparelli will touch down on the red planet on October 19. Compared to the pioneering Rosetta mission, landing on Mars is a more conventional feat. But...
The roots of Italian Taste: revisiting seven thousand years of culinary traditions
When: Friday, November 18, 2016 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PMWhere: Eataly, 43 E Ohio St, Chicago, ILOn the occasion of the Week of Italian Food in the World, (November 14 - 20, 2016), the Italian Cultural Institute and Eataly are pleased to present THE ROOTS OF ITALIAN TASTE: REVISITING SEVEN-THOUSAND YEARS OF CULINARY TRADITIONS. &...
Only fresh pasta at this new Italian restaurant in Carmel
Unlimited breadsticks, questionable calamari and pasta so sticky it cements to the roof of your mouth make it hard to believe Indianapolis was once home to so many Italian immigrants that they dominated the city's food industry. While a few decent Italian places still populate the Indy area, chain restaurants and doughy pizza are a lot of...
Ralph Branca, Admired Brooklyn Dodgers Pitcher, Dies at 90
Arriving on the major league scene as an 18-year-old in 1944, former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca led a forceful 12-year career, winning 88 games, totaling 829 strikeouts, and registering a 3.79 ERA. Branca, a Mount Vernon native, died Wednesday morning at a nursing home in Rye at 90, according to a tweet posted by his son-in-law, former m...
Tiramisù: the origin and the history of the most popular italian dessert
The "classic" Tiramisù is considered one of the best Italian desserts, everyone knows its taste and its deliciousness, but not many do know who created it and how. Here you will find what you need to know about it. (An extract from "Tiramisu Amore Mio" by Varinia Cappelletti & Edoardo Cecotto.) The origin and the history of the most po...
Rocco Manzolillo eletto per il 28°anno consecutivo Presidente del Club San Cono a New York
Rocco Manzolillo eletto per il 28° anno consecutivo alla presidenza del Club "San Cono" di Brooklyn, una delle più prestigiose associazioni di italo americani presente negli Stati Uniti d'America. La riconferma alla presidenza della prestigiosa associazione rappresenta un record nella storia del Club San Cono e, al tempo stesso, un attesta...
The spectacle of "The Young Pope”
By Tad Friend "If you don't mind smoke, you can sit here," Paolo Sorrentino said, indicating the seat beside him. "If you do"—he pointed to a distant couch. Sorrentino, the Italian writer-director of the new HBO series "The Young Pope," was ashing his Toscanello cigar out a window in the living room of his pied-à-terre, sixty-eight floors above Ma...
Oltre 2mila ospiti per il weekend della NIAF a Washington
Washington, 19 set. - Mancano tre settimane al consueto appuntamento organizzato dalla Niaf, la Fondazione Nazionale Italo-Americana che il 12 e 13 ottobre richiamera' a Washington oltre 2mila partecipanti dagli Stati Uniti e dalla Penisola per il 37esimo Anniversary Gala Weekend. A presiedere l'evento quest'anno sara' John F. Scarpa, membro del co...
USA chiama Italia e le sue eccellenze enogastronomiche rispondono: San Pellegrino, Frescobaldi, Donnafugata, Masi, Alma, Massimo Bottura, Ambasciatori del Made in Italy nel 2013 Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti” del Ministero degli Esteri
USA chiama Italia e le sue eccellenze enogastronomiche rispondono: il Belpaese, la terra dal clima mite, famosa in tutto il mondo per la sua storia, la tradizione, i suoi valori che vivono tra passato e contemporaneità e poi la sua "ars vivendi", il tanto amato, soprattutto nel mondo, italian style, sarà rappresentato negli Stati Uniti da sei eccel...
Italian American Academy: Traditional Classes
LINGUA E CULTURA ITALIANA – LIVELLO IThis class is designed for children who are fluent or semi-fluent in Italian and are in the kindergarten to 1st grade age braket.Children will have an opportunity to improve their conversation skills, learn how to read and write in Italian.Particular attention is given to orthography and morphology of the langua...
L'abbraccio di Greenwich nel Connecticut alle cittadine italiane Rose e Morra de Sanctis da oggi gemellate
di Riccardo Chioni Non c'è dubbio che la città di Greenwich in Connecticut respira e parla italiano, i dati lo confermano.Qui si registra infatti la più alta densità di italiani d'America con una particolarità che li contraddistingue: provengono tutti da due paesini, Rose in provincia di Cosenza e Morra de Sanctis in provincia di Avellino,...