Cristoforo Colombo e la Leggenda dei Monaci delle Tempeste
La spedizione dell’italiano Cristoforo Colombo nelle Americhe, nel 1492, da sempre fiore all’occhiello delle imprese compiute dal nostro Paese, nasconde aspetti affascinanti su cui la storiografia scolastica non si sofferma. Quasi nessuno, difatti, se non i maggiori esperti della biografia di Colombo, conosce la serie di aneddoti riguardanti il via...
Tales of Italy Through One Small Wine Importer
Their mission: to deliver the nuances of each of Italy’s 526 wine appellations, which might otherwise stay beyond reach for wine drinkers in other places. Small-scale, dedicated importers are important suppliers of less-known bottles and crucial cultural resources, too, bearers of those places' innumerable details and possibilities. A boutique wine...
'All Over the World I’m Bobby Bacala. And I’m Okay With That.'
Every episode of The Sopranos was uniquely wonderful and horrible, at once forcing me with its patterned silk-clad Italian-American strength to weep with laughter and seek one-to-five more milligrams of Zoloft. No character arc was each of these more so than that of Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri, the endlessly sweet, often dense, food-loving soldier an...
NIAF Offers Two New Salvatore “Sal” Catanese Scholarships
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is pleased to announce that it will be launching two new scholarships this year thanks to NIAF Member Salvatore “Sal” Catanese’s generous financial support. Catanese funds the Salvatore “Sal” Catanese Clark County Scholarship and the Salvatore “Sal” Catanese National Scholarship. NIAF Board Co-Chair P...
Who Is Italian Butcher Dario Cecchini Breaking Down a Cow on ‘Top Chef’?
On the Top Chef episode “Carne!”, Hollywood screenwriter and actress Lena Waithe (Master of None) surprises the chefs. She informs them of their next challenge: to make the trademark Kentucky dish, the Hot Brown. The famous Louisville dish is an open-faced sandwich consisting of turkey and bacon and Mornay sauce. It can be baked or broiled. It’s ca...
LA PASSIONE: How Italy Seduced the World
Imagine a world without Italy: Painting without Michelangelo. Literature without Dante. No Valentino red. Your readers know Italy embodies a culture that transformed art and architecture, language and music, food and fashion. But how did a peninsula smaller than California leave such an imprint? Award-winning author Dianne Hales credits la passion...
Cittadinanza e lingua: Nissoli (FI) interroga Moavero e Bussetti
In seguito alle numerose richieste pervenute dai connazionali residenti in Nord America, ieri Fucsia Fitzgerald Nissoli, deputata di Forza Italia eletta in Centro e Nord America, ha presentato una interrogazione ai ministri dell’Istruzione e degli Esteri per venire incontro alle esigenze delle famiglie italiane all’estero che devono certificare la...
NIAF Donated $30,000 to the Chapel of the Holy Shroud Restoration Project, Which is Now Reopened
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is pleased to announce that, as of last week, the Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin has reopened after two years of restoration. NIAF, with the support of its members and donors, contributed $30,000 (€27,000) to the chapel’s restoration project in 2016. A NIAF delegation visited the chapel in June 20...
Leo Ribuffo, scholar of the far-right political movement, dies at 73
Leo P. Ribuffo, a scholar of American political history who specialized in examining the rise of the far right, arguing that mainstream historians had underestimated and misunderstood its influence, died Nov. 27 at his home in Washington. He was 73. The cause was hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, said a friend, Bruce Rich....
Ippolita Rostagno wants to save Italian craft with American-style entrepreneurship
“I would be jumping up and down telling my friends: ‘Oh my god, don’t you see what’s happening—we need to do something!’” Ippolita Rostagno tells host Dennis Scully in the latest episode of the Business of Home podcast. “But of course, these problems seem so large that it’s like, Where do you start? This is an Italy problem.” Rostagno is familiar w...
Scott Volpe of Tucson-Based Fiamme Pizza Dominates in Freestyle Acrobatics Category of U.S. Pizza Team’s Trials
Scott Volpe of Tucson, Arizona-based Fiamme Pizza claimed the first-place trophy in the dough-spinning Freestyle Acrobatics category of the U.S. Pizza Team’s Acrobatic Trials, held Monday, Jan. 14, at the Mid-America Restaurant Expo in Columbus, Ohio. The USPT event has become an annual tradition in Columbus, but this year’s edition had a new wrink...
Living The Italian Way… Your Own Way!
Let’s start with a simple question: what does “living the Italian way” mean to you? Perhaps you are passionate about art and have always dreamed of visiting and experiencing Italian cities and their artistic and architectural treasures. Maybe you love being on top of the latest fashion trend, and that unparalleled Italian touch is exactly what meet...