Italian Festival Home Winemakers Competition Returns This Year!
This year, we welcome your homemade entries in the red, white, or cordial categories. (Cordials include anisette, fruit wine, limoncello & others.) All entries must be presented in 750ml bottles. Bottle must be labeled as follows: name of contestant, item type, & year made. Contestants may enter no more than two (2) entries per cat...
Scholarships, Financial Assistance
AC Cugini is committed to working with every family to make this opportunity available to all qualified players on our travel teams or recreational teams. We never turn away any child due to a family's inability to pay fees. Scholarships are available to players who are residents of Fairfax County and have illustrated financial need. Assis...
Special exhibit in Wilmington offers Italian art as seen through apps
Paolo Russo's work lives at the intersection of technology, innovation and art. Russo, who calls Rome, Italy his home, frequently travels to Delaware for work. This is all part of his job as general secretary of Stati Generali dell'Innovazione, a nonprofit association that lobbies to promote Italy's innovation. For months, he has been wor...
Con il Coccia Institute della MSU, nel New Jersey si perfeziona l'insegnamento dell'italiano
Venerdì scorso il Coccia Institute e il dipartimento di spagnolo e italiano della Montclair State University, nel New Jersey, hanno tenuto il loro settimo simposio sull'insegnamento dell'italiano. L'evento è stato organizzato dalla professoressa Enza Antenos, Deputy Chair of Italian della Montclair, e da Mary Ann Re, PhD., direttrice del C...
Diners flock to V&M Italian Bistro
On a frigid Friday evening, a milling crowd gathers outside the front door of Vincenza & Margherita Italian Bistro. Inside, couples, standing in the foyer or camping on couches near the hostess stand, juggle glasses of red wine in one hand and bulky winter coats in another. Every stool is occupied at the lively bar where a bartender sprinkles a...
Informal Dining: Martino's Market in Hackensack
by Elisa Ung Italian, with verve. I was barely through my first plate from the $15 all-you-can-eat buffet at Martino's Market in Hackensack and already the questions were piled up in my head: How did this chicken Parmigiana become so tender? Who made this sausage that brims with fennel seeds in every bite? What gave this ordi...
Tracing the roots of Matawan’s Italian immigrants
By Kayla J. Marsh As a child, Gloria Bucco remembers her father telling her stories about older relatives who left Italy to settle in the small town of Matawan, New Jersey. "Stories are an important part of life, we tell them all the time and sometimes don't even know it," she said in an interview Aug. 17. "My father very much wan...
Jews of Sicily: A Forgotten History, with Sergio Calderella
January 28 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Bridgewater JCC - 775 Talamini Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807The saga of Jewish history has no simple chapters, and the chapter on Sicilian Jews is certainly no exception. While the histories of Galician, Indian, and Japanese Jews have been studied extensively, one of the oldest communities of the Diaspora has...
Bill and Giuliana Rancic bring modern Italian to D.C. with new restaurant
For the uninitiated, Bill and Giuliana Rancic rose to fame in the advent of reality television -- Bill won Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" and Giuliana was an anchor on E! News for nearly a decade. They met during an interview, and the rest was history. As a couple, they starred in "Giuliana and Bill," but off-camera they successfully were heating...
The Italian Place Sets Opening Date in Alexandria
The Italian Place, a new gourmet market and eatery, plans to open its doors Thursday, Sept. 8 in Alexandria, the business has announced. The business will be open starting at 10 a.m. The eatery will offer fresh-made sub sandwiches, gourmet salads, imported pastas and olive oils, Illy coffee and Italian soda, Italian wines, gift baskets and...
Restaurant review: Viaggio in Wayne
By Elisa Ung Drop everything, head to Wayne's new Italian spot, Viaggio, and order the chicken. Yes, the chicken. Yes, this is a rare and ringing endorsement of what is the most notoriously boring dish in most restaurants. And no, it's not Parmigiana or Francese. Those Italian-American favorites happen to be banned from the premises of Viaggio, a...
Spring Grove family creamery takes pride in Italian heritage
As hot water was poured into a stainless steel kettle, Rynn Caputo stirred what became a smooth provolone.Eventually the cheese was ready to be stretched, twisted and kneaded into a length that rivaled the longest jump rope."At some point, this becomes a two-person job," said her husband, David Caputo.While the couple worked, their words and the wa...