Chicago staple Portillo’s hiring 200 for new Tempe Marketplace location
Portillo's Hot Dogs — the Chicago-based fast-casual eatery that opened its first Arizona location in Scottsdale earlier this year — is set to hire 200 more hourly positions for a new Tempe location beginning this week. Starting Wednesday, May 29, those interested can apply in person at an on-site hiring center adjacent to the construction of the n...
Incontro del Ministro Bonino con una delegazione della “National Italian American Foundation” (NIAF)
Il Ministro degli Esteri Emma Bonino ha incontrato oggi alla Farnesina una delegazione della "National Italian American Foundation" (NIAF), guidata dal Chairman Joseph Del Raso. Al centro dei colloqui i legami con la comunità italo-americana e, più in generale, lo sviluppo di sempre più strette relazioni tra Italia e Stati Uniti nei settori della...
Virgin Mary celebrated at Italian feast
For many Italians originating from the small farm town of Cercemaggiore, America wasn't the most important discovery of the 15th century. As legend goes, a farmer was working his land when he stumbled upon a clay case buried in the ground. Inside that vase, the farmer uncovered an even greater treasure: a four-and-a-half-foot tall wooden sculp...
A Look at the 6th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Corona, Queens
By Giovanni di Napoli Saturday, I made my way to Corona, Queens for the 6th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, an intimate celebration with plenty of delicious food, fun games and live entertainment. Warmly welcomed, I met many good-hearted and friendly people. I especially enjoyed talking to some of the older participants who glowi...
Spigariello, a leafy edible with the taste of Italy
By Jeff Spurrier For Craig Ruggless of Winnetka Farms, one of the most prized plants this season is spigariello, a leafy cool-season green that tastes like broccoli and keeps growing after you've harvested it. Spigariello resembles broccoli rabe (aka rapini) in appearance but has white flowers and a sweeter, slightly peppery taste. Ruggle...
Mediterranean diet may help thwart type 2 Diabetes, Study finds
Low-carb diets also were associated with reduced risk. A Mediterranean-style diet and low-carbohydrate diets may help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Based on eating habits in Greece, southern Italy and Spain, a Mediterranean diet consists largely of fish, fruits, vegetables, beans, high-fiber breads,...
Denver: scalando le Montagne Rocciose con madre Cabrini
Per arrivare su in cima, si devono percorrere 373 gradini. E lì ti accoglie una enorme statua del Sacro Cuore di Gesù scolpita da un artista italiano, che guarda dritto verso valle. Intorno a te, le Montagne Rocciose. In fondo, la città di Denver, che sembra come una cattedrale nel deserto. Si presenta così il picco più alto del Mother's C...
Italian Industry is taking off in the State of Washington
by Mauro Battocchi On September 12 the Governor of the State of Washington celebrated the Grand Opening of the new Umbra Cuscinetti Inc.'s new production facility in Everett, near Seattle, along with local authorities, customers and employees. I had the honor to take part in the celebration and convey to the audience Ambassador Bisogniero'...
Italian-Americans Return to East Harlem So That St. Anthony’s Tower Can Rise Again
Among the items raised on Sunday at a festival in East Harlem — aside, of course, from the giglio, an 83-foot-tall wooden tower built in honor of St. Anthony of Padua — was a question of moral geography: Do New Yorkers actually have to live in a neighborhood to claim it as their own? The overwhelming answer, at least according to the members of th...
Starting Your Family History Project
Have you ever thought about organizing your family history so it is preserved and can be passed on to future generations? Or, creating a family tree to see all of your relatives and how you are all linked? This is genealogy. The search for, and documentation of, one's ancestors and family lineages. If you have been thinking about starting a genealo...
The Italian Significant Contribution to the Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 107 times to 196 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2013. This year the prize was awarded jointly to François Englert (Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (Britain) "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently wa...
Fundraising dinner: Wounded to death
The Confederation of Italian Entrepreneurs Worldwide (CIIM) and Mismaonda invite you to a fundraising dinner to support Ferite a Morte (Wounded to Death), a project that aims to sensitize people and institutions about violence against women. Proceeds from this event will go towards funding a future reading of this work at the United Nations. Seren...