Why the Italian Real Estate market attracts foreign investments
by Claudia Astarita Lots of figures are currently suggesting that real estate market in Italy is boosting up on the right track. This trend has been confirmed by the conference held in London in mid-November, organized by Legance-Avvocati Associati, hosting lawyers and important characters of the international real estate market. ...
San Marco’s time-tested Italian
By Andrew Z. Galarneau A restaurant's people are as important as its products. The face that greets you when you come in out of the cold and the hands that prepare your meal shape your experience more powerfully than its physical manifestations: the walls, the furniture, the plates. Over decades of steady performance, furniture and plates bec...
The kitchen at Cavour has gotten a little more Italian
by Mike Riccetti Ristorante Cavour, the restaurant in the Hotel Granduca in Uptown Park and one of handful of fine dining Italian restaurants in the city, quietly added a new executive chef in November, Enrico Glaudo, who comes from the Los Angeles area where he cooked for over two decades. This included at his own restaurant, Frascati, which was...
Italian stories: the first online marketplace of cultural tourism focused on Italian craftmanship
Do you want to meet the best Italian artisans inside their labs? Would you like to be the artisan's apprentice for a day, discovering the secrets of made in Italy? Italian Stories gives you the chance to find interesting stories and easily book authentic experiences inside the best artisans' lab. It is also possible to ask for custom...
Miami Cigar & Company To Distribute Toscano In USA
Miami Cigar & Company proudly announces that they have reached an agreement to become the exclusive distributor of Toscano Cigars in the United States. Based in Tuscany, Italy, Toscano produces high quality fermented Kentucky tobacco. The brand has forever been immortalized through film and television, most well known as Clint Eastwood...
Bialetti's ashes collected in his iconic Moka Pot
The ashes of Renato Bialetti, the owner of the factory of home appliances and the coffee makers which bear his name, have been collected in a large Moka Pot. The iconic Moka coffee maker was invented by his father in 1933, and over 200 million have been manufactured. Bialetti's family considered this gesture as a way of remembering the man, who die...
Chef brings a tasty spin on Italian cuisine to Mount Laurel
Like so many of his colleagues, David Levecchia, executive chef of Trattoria Figaro, found his way into his profession long before he realized it. He was an avid visitor to his family's kitchen, watching, learning, taking it all in. "I didn't exactly plan it, but I was constantly observing," said Levecchia of his childhood. R...
ItalyGuides.it comes to Kickstarter
ItalyGuides.it is a small project dedicated to Italy but with big ambitions. That's why we're here to ask for your support. Our passion is about revolutionizing the world of art and tourism. Italy is an amazing country but strangely not very well known. We're the country with the biggest number of artistic treasures in the world but...
Trailer: Alec Baldwin & Danny Glover star in Paul Borghese’s Boxing Drama ‘Back in the Day’
When things that don't seem to matter anymore, mattered. In 'Back in the Day' a young boxer, Anthony Rodriguez (William DeMeo), a half Italian – half Puerto Rican young teenager who had to endure an abusive, unemployed, alcoholic father but was blessed with a nurturing, hard-working mother who he loses at a very early age and is devastated by it is...
One Dish: Kevin Cleary's Buono Bolognese
You can get a fantastic plate of Bolognese in Burlington, but there's a catch: It's only available one day a week. At Vin Bar & Shop, Wednesday is Penne Bolognese night, and for pasta lovers, it's a fine way to mangia midweek. Pasta expertise is nothing new from Vin owners Kevin and Kathi Cleary. For 12 years, the couple ran L'Amante R...
15 aprile 1964: Rocky Castellani arrivò a un passo dal mondiale
La storia del pugilato Americano è piena di Rocky, alcuni celebrati, altri meno noti, tutti dotati dello stesso temperamento sanguigno e della matrice italo-americana. Uno dei tanti Rocky che arrivò ad un passo dalla gloria mondiale, senza poterla godere, si chiamava Rocky Castellani, iscritto all'anagrafe di Luzerne, Pennsylvania con il nome di At...
Lillian’s Italian Kitchen preps new space in Santa Cruz
Soon the frustration will end for folks who have been unable to get a meal at Lillian's Italian Kitchen, the popular Eastside restaurant in a small spot at 1116 Soquel Ave. After nine years and a TripAdvisor rating of fourth best restaurant in Santa Cruz based on customer reviews, the owners are about to move into a bigger space — double t...