Dine Out Maine: At Solo Italiano, there is magic in simplicity
Three months ago, if you had asked me to predict at which restaurant I would eat jaw-achingly sweet blackberries – plump as a toddler's thumb and picked that morning by our server as she walked through a South Portland park – I would never have guessed Solo Italiano. Vinland, sure. Maybe even Fore Street or Local Sprouts Café, but not a glass-and-e...
Casa d'Italia Brings Bronx Flavor to Harrison
Claims of cuisine authenticity are ubiquitous in the food world. The sign on the restaurant's front window may boast of as much, but that doesn't mean the kitchen is backing those words up with ingredient integrity and legit experience. But Lucy and Steve Selvaggio, owners of Casa d'Italia in Harrison, have a pedigree that gives their sandwich shop...
Massimo Bottura, the Chef Behind the World’s Best Restaurant
ONE OF THE FIRST things you see inside the door of Massimo Bottura's restaurant, Osteria Francescana, in Modena, Italy, is a self-portrait of the artist Joseph Beuys posing like a stand-in for the Sundance Kid; the inscription at the bottom, in Italian, says, "We are the revolution." Bottura has been a force in a culinary revolution for ye...
Braintree to host IACO guest speaker presentation
Rosalind A. Cuschera, author of "Journey from San Rocco," will be the guest speaker at the Italian-American Cultural Organization meeting at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at Grove Manor, 160 Grove St., Braintree. Cuschera's book was published in 2013, and she received an Honorable Mention Award from The New England Book Festival. The book begins in 1918 w...
Italian maestro creates opera magic this week at MSU
Beginning on Wednesday, the Michigan State University Opera Theater will open a four-performance run of the delightful comic opera, "The Elixir of Love" by Donizetti. Director of the company and stage director of this production, Melanie Helton, has asked Marcello Cormio to conduct the opera. Cormio, whose long, wavy black hair fulfil...
Italian Wine Week 2017
Gli USA sono il principale mercato mondiale per consumo di vino: 53 miliardi di dollari spesi, di cui 15 sono importati con 1,65 miliardi dall'Italia. Ai produttori italiani sono offerti 5 mesi di attività specifiche sul mercato americano. Si inizia con un momento di formazione specifico a Wine2Wine (Verona, 6-7 dicembre 2016) si sviluppa con even...
Second act for Minneapolis deli Delmonico's on hold
Terry Delmonico's career at the Italian-family grocery store in Northeast began after he returned from an Army tour in Vietnam in the late 1960s. "My dad had an operation and asked if I could help in the store for a few months," recalled Delmonico, 69. "I left after about 45 years." Terry and his cousin Bob Delmonico, 63, worked along...
Alessandra Belloni Brings Ancient Italian Folk Music to New Audiences in New York
by Teresa Alessandro La musica italiana is a powerful art that brings people together. It will never cost you a dime in overweight luggage fees to take home. It will transport you back to a memory, a place, or a time. No matter where Italians have emigrated, music has always invoked feelings: of home, of summer, of love for their country,...
Monks brew beer to help restore Italian town after earthquake
As we strolled along the main shopping street in Norcia, Corso Sertorio, the effects of the devastating Oct. 30 earthquake, the strongest to hit Italy since 1980, were not immediately apparent. Most of the shops, though shut, seemed intact. Christmas lights were strung overhead. The scenery changed dramatically when our guide, Benedict Niv...
Entro il 15 luglio le candidature ai nuovi bandi ISSNAF
L'Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation bandisce l'edizione 2012 dell'ISSNAF Young Investigator Award e del Paola Campese Award for Research on Leukemias. Scopo dei bandi è premiare i giovani ricercatori italiani che lavorano in Nord America, il cui impegno nella propria attività di studio risulti innovativo, di rilievo e ono...
Migliaia di visitatori al Javits Center per Vino Expo, decine di produttori nell'affollato padiglione italiano
di Riccardo Chioni Ha chiuso ieri i battenti al Javits Convention Center la tre giorni di New York Vino Expo realizzata in collaborazione con l'Italian Trade Commission, che ha visto la partecipazione di 41 aziende italiane provenienti dalle maggiori aree di produzione e il considerevole numero di otto mila visitatori che hanno pagato 85 d...
Il Volo to tape two PBS sspecials in Miami this month! Tickets available now!
Join the three, young Italian tenors, Piero Barone (19), Ignazio Boschetto(18) and Gianluca Ginoble (18) of Il Volo from The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater as they perform two, full-length national PBS concert events across two days, March 26 & 27, 2013!