Italian land and nature: Traveling by Camper
WTI Magazine #62 2015 June, 12Author : italia.it Translation by: For camping enthusiasts, the camper has became a lifestyle – a travel approach that, in Italy, regards approximately 5.6 million tourists (annually), including Italians and foreigners both. A camper vacation invites travelers to escape from the usual, well-trodden itine...
IT and US: Birds of Passage, An Italian Immigrant Coming of Age Story
WTI Magazine #70 2015 October, 16Author : Joseph Giordano Translation by: I wrote Birds of Passage to honor the memory of my father and grandparents, all of whom emigrated from Naples to New York. The great wave of Italian immigrants started after 1871, when Italy had been consolidated, but il Risorgimento, did not create a nation. A...
Studying (in) Italy: Joe D’Amore, JCU Study Abroad Spring 2015
WTI Magazine #57 2015 April, 3Author : Joe D'Amore for John Cabot University Translation by: My name is Joe D'Amore. I am a 21-year-old Italian-American from Winthrop, Massachusetts. My dad moved to the States when he was 25 years old, leaving Montefalcione, his small town close to Naples. In the States he met my mum, who happened to...
IT and US: Italian in the Kitchen, a language and culinary arts camp for children
WTI Magazine #62 2015 June, 12Author : Jacqueline Gowe Translation by: Italian in the Kitchen Camp was born of a desire to combine my two passions; healthy cooking and the Italian language. It is inspired by my love of Italian cuisine, culture and also the Italian way of seeing the world with a love for cultivating beauty, intelligen...
Italian cuisine: Chestnut Truffels
WTI Magazine #70 2015 October, 16Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn Translation by: An autumn delight with an irresistibly intense flavor of chestnuts and chocolate. These tasty truffels are prepared with boiled chestnuts, melted chocolate and Maraschino liqueur, then dusted with a layer of cocoa powder. The preparation is simple and...
Italian fashion: Maria Federica Bachiddu, “Cappe d’autore” at Palazzo Cenci
WTI Magazine #11 2014 Jan, 3Author : Nadiah Ahmad Shukri for PoisonDrops.com Translation by: The Timeless CapeFew pieces of clothing are as timeless as the cape. It traced the footsteps of the medieval traveller, found its way to the wardrobes of the most elegant Venetian dames, draped the shoulders of the mysterious dandy, and of co...
Italian cuisine: Focaccia di Recco
WTI Magazine #55 2015 March, 6Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn Translation by: Focaccia di Recco is a delicious snack that can be enjoyed any time during the day. When we think about focaccia, we usually think about bread dough with yeast; instead the peculiarity of the focaccia di Recco is the lack of yeast! For this reason it is...
Italian language: Using pronouns and actual English words
WTI Magazine #57 2015 April, 3Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: What is a pronoun? It is a variable part of the speech that can replace a name, an adjective or an adverb. So for example, I can say ""questo argomento è facile, quello è difficile" (this topic is easy, that one is difficult) or "questo arg...
Italian good news: A petition to give back the Italian citizenship to those who lost it when they left Italy
WTI Magazine #62 2015 June, 12Author : Angela Fucsia Nissoli Translation by: Con questa petizione Vi chiedo di sostenere la mia proposta di legge sul riacquisto della cittadinanza (N. 2794), affinché venga discussa nell'Aula di Montecitorio il prima possibile. La Proposta di Legge che ho presentato in Parlamento reca: "Modifica all'a...
Italian wine: Immersion in Umbrian wine with Sagrantino
WTI Magazine #70 2015 October, 16Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com Translation by: The vines in Montefalco are rather young and only about 15 years old. The traditional version of sagrantino was more of a passito, dried grapes, style, which is still produced today. These wines are sweeter in style, but due...
Italian wine: Lagrein from Cantina Tramin in Alto Adige
WTI Magazine #57 2015 April, 3Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com Translation by: We have discussed the Alto Adige before highlighting particular wines of the region and today we are going to cover the Cantina Tramin winery. For those of you not familiar with the Alto Adige it's part of the region in Northea...
Italian language: Marketing our beautiful language in the US
WTI Magazine #62 2015 June, 12Author : Berardo Paradiso Translation by: After the General Convention Of Italian Language in the World, held in the beautiful city of Florence in 2014, I felt the need to investigate more accurately the status and potential teaching of Italian language in the US. The subject is complex, so it will face...