Pasta, the key ingredient of a sustainable diet
by Claudia Astarita Is pasta good or bad for your health? Is it going to make you fat or it should be always included in sustainable diets? At a time in which we are reading so many things about pasta, the Italian chef Massimo Bottura, the three Michelin starred chef of Osteria Franescana in Modena, steps up in the discussion to clarify wh...
Carlo Ponti and the Los Angeles virtuosi orchestra: Orchestral masterworks
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016 Hours: 7:30 PM Venue: Theatre Raymond Kabbaz Organized by: Theatre Raymond Kabbaz In collaboration with: Le Lycée Français of Los Angeles, TV5Monde, KCRW and IIC tickets at www.theatreraymondkabbaz.com The concert includes the West Coast premieres of dramatic orchestral arrangements of Giuseppe Verdi's and Cl...
L’azienda che insegna l’ecommerce alle aziende, crescendo il 1.315% in 4 anni. FiloBlu
Christian Nucibella lo sottolinea da subito: «Con 80 dipendenti, 6 sedi in tutto il mondo, FiloBlu si sta consolidando come una realtà solida e in crescita, uscita dalla fase di startup ormai da circa 3 anni». E che crescita. Con un aumento dei ricavi del 1.315%, FiloBlu è una delle 7 aziende italiane premiate dallaclassifica Deloitte per la più al...
Business d'Italiano: Chapman symposium focuses on U.S.-Italian business possibilities
What: "Culture and Business: An Italian Perspective"When: 5th of March at 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.Where: George Bush Conference Center, Beckman Hall 404Admission: Free - Information and RSVP: events.chapman.edu/15032 Amid the architectural, culinary and artistic beauty of Italy is another, sometimes unappreciated specialty – business. That's the topic...
Favilla's to open new location in North Asheville
What's been a bit of a revolving door of pizza is getting a solid pie candidate. Andy Favilla, co-owner of Favilla's New York Pizza, and his cousin Sal Ferrara, will open a sister restaurant to Favilla's West Asheville pizzeria in early April. And, according to Favilla, he could have more restaurants on the way. The new eatery, Favilla's...
Shore restaurant named N.J.'s best Italian restaurant
It's officlal. Cafe 2825 in Atlantic City is N.J.'s best Italian restaurant. The restaurant, at 2825 Atlantic Ave., topped nine other finalists in our N.J.'s best Italian restaurant showdown. Cafe 2825, with its cozy, 52-seat dining room and compact bar, was one of the smallest restaurants of the 40 we visited in our semifinal round....
Quartetto di Cremona
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016 Time: 7:30 PM. Location: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Organized by: San Francisco Performances In collaboration with: IIC The Quartetto di Cremona, founded in 2000 while the members were students at the Accademia Walter Stauffer in Cremona, Italy, is rapidly becoming one of the most interest...
Adeguamento retributivo ai contrattisti MAECI negli USA: Di Biagio (AP) e Turano (PD) interrogano Gentiloni
Un adeguamento del 5%: questa la percentuale del ritocco delle contribuzioni dei dipendenti a contratto nella rete diplomatico-consolare italiana negli Stati Uniti. Un aumento "irrisorio" per Aldo Di Biagio, senatore di Ap eletto in Europa, che, insieme al collega del Pd Renato Turano (Pd), eletto in Nord America, ha presentato una interrogazione i...
Joe Desimone: From produce farmer to owner of Seattle’s Pike Place Market
Giuseppe "Joe" Desimone was a bear of a man, 6 foot 2 inches tall, 300 pounds. He arrived in America in 1897 from Naples at the age of 18 with 50 cents in his pocket. He worked first as a swine farmer in Rhode Island, then made the journey west to Seattle. At this point, his life might have taken the usual path for an Italian immigrant, fi...
Kids will be Kids, Even in Ancient Rome: Roman Toys & Games (Part 2)
Here the second part discovering the world of toys in ancient Rome. The older boys and girls had outdoor toys... sticks and hoops, balls, yo-yos, swings, bow and arrows, sling shots, hobby horses, marbles, and games similar to kick-the-can, hide-and-seek and tag. And you can imagine some great racing games using toys with wheels on them... "My cha...
Dine on Our Dime: D'Arpino's Italian Cafe
Small, but mighty. D'Arpino's Italian Cafe on South National is the epitome of "blink and you might miss it," but for those who know it's around, it's become a yummy staple. This small restaurant has a big following, people who stick around and become regulars. A dream come true for this Italian family. And those regulars become like famil...
Italian American Women of Staten Island: Scholarship Dinner 2016
The Italian American Women of Staten Island hosted its annual Scholarship Dinner at Patrizia's of Brooklyn in Eltingville last night. The 2016 recipient, Emily Cooke, is a graduate of St. Joseph Hill Academy and will be attending Steven's Institute in their engineering program. Antonella Colangeli and Michele Springer were the co-chairs at this eve...