Cucinelli Eyes Double-Digit Sales and Continued Profit Growth in 2015
Italian luxury cashmere maker Brunello Cucinelli forecast double-digit growth in earnings and sales both this year and next, after its net profit rose 18 percent to 15.6 million euros in the first half of 2014. Cucinelli said on Sept. 27th, it had completed the sales campaign of its Spring/Summer 2015 men's collection and the women's one w...
Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast
It was my first day back in Metaponto in a decade, and I was anxious. As my train from Rome pulled into the station, after a six-hour descent past Vesuvius, the craggy Lucanian Dolomites, olive groves and pebbly streams, and finally the small hill towns and low, pale mountains (calanchi) of the Basilicata region, I wondered what had changed...
AOSR's 2nd Annual Fundraising Gala Photos
AOSR's 2nd Annual Fundraising Gala, organized by the Board of Trustees, took place on March 20th at the charming Villa Laura outside of Rome. It was a sold out affair with everyone elegantly dressed to the evening's theme: Something Red or White. We all enjoyed a magical evening with delicious gourmet food and live salsa music. The highl...
Matera officially proclaimed EU Capital of Culture 2019
The European Union and its culture ministers officially designated the UNESCO-listed Matera has EU Capital of Culture. Matera was formally named along with the Bulgarian city of Plodviv. So, the southern Italian city is already gearing up to show off its best as European culture capital in 2019. Among the city's objectives is to invol...
New book focuses on role of Italians in Niagara Falls' history
The ethnic communities of Niagara Falls' glorious past are the subject of a new series of books produced by our Italian Research Group at the Lewiston Public Library. In 2014, we published the first history of Niagara Falls' Italians, "Buon Appetito; Niagara's early Italian-American culinary traditions." We have continued with our Ita...
Il vino toscano in America: "Anche qui ai supertuscan serve fare squadra per vincere"
di Leonardo Biagiotti New York, 2 settembre 2015 - Più grande e in grande stile is better. Anche il vino toscano, per crescere in America, ha bisogno di fare squadra evitando piccoli eventi 'poco utili se non dannosi'. Parola di Lucio Caputo, presidente dell'Italian Wine & Food Institute di New York, l'organizzazione che dal 1983 si oc...
All Souls' Day (Commemorazione dei defunti) and the Italian tradition
November 2nd is All Souls' Day, a Catholic feast dedicated to the memorial of the dead which, according to tradition, can be dated back to ancient times. This day, in almost every country, the dead are remembered with different rituals and customs, yet the aim is just one: give some consolation to the souls of the dead. Although the tradition...
After a slow start, 2016 expected to be a year of strong discontinuity in Italy’s digital revolution
Since March 2015, when the Cabinet approved its digital agenda , the strategy of the government has been to work on improving both infrastructure and services. The former has been the focus of a "strategy for ultra-broadband" presented to the Cabinet on that occasion, while the future of services is described in the document "Strategy for...
Made in Italy, l'agroalimentare "coltiva" il futuro
Dopo anni di chiusura e sfiducia da parte degli istituti finanziari, oggi investire nel comparto agroalimentare appare sempre più strategico e vincente, con i big nostrani che sembrano impegnati a fare a gara per concedere finanziamenti, moratorie e linee di credito capaci di andare incontro alle esigenze del comparto. Nelle ultime settima...
ExoMars, Italian techology leads the space missions
"The ExoMars 2016 with its scientific and technological cargo is travelling to Mars, where it will prepare grounds for the research of answers that are so important to us, those on the origin of life". That's how Roberto Battiston, President of Asi, the Italian Space Association, has hailed a space mission that not only brings so much fasc...
Altezza: l’Italia supera gli Stati Uniti
L'Italia ha superato gli Stati Uniti. Per ora, soltanto in altezza. Che significa, secondo gli studiosi, pure vivere di più. La media nella nostra penisola è adesso di 177,8 centimetri contro i 177,1 degli yankees. Nel 1914, un secolo fa, l'italiano medio era alto 164,7 centimetri contro i 171,1 degli americani. I dati portano la firma del...
Project aimed at fighting food waste to become operational January 1, 2017
by Massimo Agostini A new project aimed at fighting food waste in Italy plans to intercept excess food before it is dumped in the garbage can and redirect it to the more than 1.5 million people helped every day in the country by food charity Banco Alimentare. The "Life-Food Waste Stand Up" project is being coordinated by food industry federation...