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For 60 years, Marcella and Victor Hazan's ongoing conversation about food resulted in many beloved cookbooks, including "The Classic Italian Cookbook." Marcella developed the recipes and wrote in her native Italian.   Victor, who was trained and worked as a writer, would observe, transcribe in the kitchen, and channel her voice to create the...

L'illusione di molti esportatori di Made in Italy negli Stati uniti è di avere successo per il semplice "fatto" che i loro prodotti sono eccellenti. Ne ho visti parecchi sbarcare a New York con programmi faraonici e tornarsene a casa con la coda fra le gambe. Perché l'eccellenza non basta, se non si capisce poi come funziona concretamente il mercat...

by Mauro Battocchi   Are you an Italian researcher born after April 1974 and currently working primarily in the United States or Canada? Here is a great opportunity for you.   Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation and LaFondazioneNY are pleased to announce their 2014 Award for the Humanities, which acknowledges t...

Dennis Pettinelli, CLU, ChFC, CLTC, LUTCF , principal, Pettinelli Financial Partners, has been named as one of the top ten financial representatives nationwide for 2013 it was announced by Signator Investors, Inc., powered by John Hancock Financial Network.   Signator management meets annually with this elite group seeking best practices foc...

Vi saremo eternamente grati", così il presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America, Barack Obama, questa mattina, ha voluto ricordare in un discorso, sentito e toccante, di più di 25 minuti quei ragazzi "pronti a dare la vita per qualcuno che non avevamo mai visto" durante le celebrazioni per il settantesimo anniversario dello sbarco in Normandia.  ...

We are sure that some of you will want to send greetings in Italian to all those lovely people you have met in Italy, so here is how to do it. The simplest and most commonly used greeting is: Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. You could also write: Buone Feste - Happy Celebrations.  ...

Musical pioneer Francesca Caccini was born on September 18, 1587, in Florence, Italy. She grew up in a home that was always filled with music – her father was a renowned composer and her mother was a singer. Her education and training included learning to sing, play the piano, guitar and harp, as well as learning to write Italian and Latin. It is b...

di Diodato Pirone   Nell'universo Fiat c'è una grande fabbrica (oltre 1.200 dipendenti) che lavora anche la domenica. E persino il giorno del santo patrono. Accade a Cento, in provincia di Ferrara, dove i reparti dello stabilimento VM Motori – la terza fabbrica italiana di motori dopo Termoli e Pratola Serra – hanno marciato a pieno vapore a...

di Maurita Cardone   Non sono molti gli scrittori contemporanei italiani che riescono a esportare le proprie opere nel mercato USA. E tra i giovani sono ancora meno. Marco Malvaldi è una vera rarità. Lui ce l'ha fatta: di recente i suoi gialli dal sapore toscano sono sbarcati negli States con il timbro di Europa Editions. E d'altra parte già...

by Lee Breslouer   Just because a pizza place has stuck around for a long while doesn't mean its pies are anything special... but mostly it does. We tricked you again, it 100% does! And that's certainly the case with these 21 pizzerias from across the country, all of them continuously in operation since the day they opened so many years ago...

Nonostante nei primi sei mesi del 2015 le importazioni di vino verso gli Stati Uniti siamo diminuite del 3,8%, l'Italia continua a crescere segnando un +1,5%. Lo dicono i dati pubblicati dall'Italian Wine & Food Institute, il cui presente Lucio Caputo, ha ricordato come siano importanti a fronte di un crollo degli altri paesi: Australia (-5,8%)...

Do you remember those adventure movies, in which a kid, or a bunch of them, find in their attic (or basement) some sort of treasure chest, containing an old map or something special passed on to them from their ancestors?   Ok, I admit it! I was thinking about The Goonies (1985). Particularly the eighties saw a proliferation of films, based...