Tuscan Sister City Sends Chef to Charlottesville
Tavola restaurant is excited to partner with the Charlottesville Sister City commission on an exchange of culinary talent between two Italian restaurants: Ristorante il Falcone in the sister city of Poggio a Caiano and tavola restaurant in Charlottesville. Each restaurant will send its chef to the other for one week. From June 6-...
Tuscan chef spends the week cooking at Tavola, and other restaurant news
by Laura Ingles They say in America that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Turns out that's pretty universal. "Her love for food started with a love for her husband, because the restaurant owner was her husband," says Caterina Martini, translating for seventh-generation Italian chef Roberta Vivetta Cintelli. "She starte...
45 years of Italian legacy at Freehold pizzeria
by Susan Bloom Arriving in the U.S. from the town of Monte di Procida just outside of Naples in 1970, Antonio Durazzo started as a longshoreman in Brooklyn. But not for long. He soon moved to Freehold Township, where he opened his own eatery, Attilio's Restaurant & Pizza, in 1972. The following year he was joined in the b...
Cafesano Successfully Expands with Help from Table Tracker System
Cafesano, a casual Italian and Mediterranean Bistro in Northern Virginia, has successfully opened a second, larger location in Dulles, VA with help from Long Range Systems' Table Tracker system. Cafesano has used the Table Tracker system for nearly a decade in their original Reston, VA location as a way to increase efficiency during their...
Annual Carnevale Italiano sails back into No. Brunswick
Carnival-goers will once again be delighted with rides, games, food, prizes and entertainment from July 18 to 22. Admission and parking will be free at the annual Carnevale Italiano, sponsored by the Italian American Social Club of North Brunswick (IASC). The five-day event will be held on the corner of Route 130 north and Apple Orchard Lane. The...
America chiama (ancora) Italia
In occasione della conferenza stampa di apertura della prima tappa di Vinitaly International USA 2013, John Gillespie, presidente del Wine Market Council, ha presentato i risultati dell'Annual Survey of Imported Wine Consumption Trends in the USA, realizzata dall'istituto Wine Opinions, sui trend americani di consumo di vino.I dati della ricerca ev...
Mondo Italiano: Teaching Italian in Pittsburgh
Are you Italian or of Italian descent? Do you know how to speak Italian? Some Italian-Americans can still speak it fluently while others might have lost the language of their "nonni" (grandparents). To learn to speak this great language, check out Mondo Italiano which was created by Viviana Altieri. She created Mondo Italiano with her desire of co...
‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
By Michael Dirda Today, Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) is little known to most American readers, being remembered, if at all, as some sort of decadent poet and novelist who enjoyed a stormy love affair with the great actress Eleonora Duse. But in his time, he was as famous as a rock star and in Italy remains to this day a figure of huge literary,...
The Myth of the Great War: An International Conference
An international interdisciplinary conference on "The Myth of the Great War - World War I: Myth and Reality" will be hosted in Philadelphia by the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, April 24-25, 2014, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. The conference is organized by Fabio Finotti, Christine Pogg...
Italian Festival hands out honors
The Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival is about many things - food, family and fireworks certainly among them - but it's also about giving young people a leg up for their future. Though preparation for the three-day extravaganza set for July 27-29 at Wheeling's Heritage Port is well under way, event organizers paused Monday for a...
Dining Out: Graffiato
by Marissa Hermanson Chef Mike Isabella's name isn't foreign to foodies. The D.C.-based chef and cookbook author has starred on a little TV show on Bravo called "Top Chef." And now, his food is right here in Richmond. Isabella's Italian-inspired restaurant, the first of which opened in Washington's Chinatown neighborhood in 2011, serves u...
Nomina del Console Onorario d’Italia in Virginia, Gen. Gianmarco Bellini
di Andrea Canepari Cari Connazionali, ho il piacere di comunicarVi che con decreto ministeriale n. 5013/142/BIS del 27 marzo 2015, pubblicato sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 87 del 15 aprile 2015, il Generale Gianmarco Bellini è stato nominato Console onorario d'Italia a Norfolk, Virginia. I contatti del nuovo ufficio consolare onorario sono...