Luca Pisaroni makes his much anticipated ROF debut this August!
Most American Rossini lovers will remember Luca Pisaroni as the unforgettable Alidoro in the Metropolitain Opera’s “La Cenerentola” a few season’s back. Fortunately it was transmitted in HD, so people all over the US had the chance to experience this exceptional artist. Pisaroni is back at the Met this month for “I Puritani”, and those lucky enough...
A taste of Italy coming to Le Roy
Italy may be over 6,000 miles away, but for those hungering for food from the old country, Capish Pizza-ristorante in Le Roy delivers. “I hear there are a lot of Italians living here, and that we can remind them what their grandparents how they used to cook in the old days,” said Jim Frascati, the location’s owner. Capish will be serving pizza — bo...
That's Lunch: Bella Regina an Italian classic
About the restaurant: Bella Regina remains a classic Italian-American restaurant in the heart of downtown Utica. Located in the middle of the thriving business district on Genesee Street, it calls to mind many of the authentic old-time Italian restaurants in New York's Little Italy. Photographs of famous singers and actors like Marlon and Dean and...
Centro Trattoria review: Italian-American restaurant offers updated classics in Hampton Bays
At Centro Trattoria in Hampton Bays, a vintage black-and-white photo mural on one of the dining room walls shows how much fun and glamorous Italian dining can be. Five Broadway showgirls, circa 1948, participate in a pasta-eating contest where they each eat a plate of spaghetti without their hands. If you choose wisely at this updated roadhouse, yo...
At America’s Oldest Cheese Shop, Tony Danza Commands Your Attention
That’s me you have seen marching double-time through the streets of New York’s Little Italy, my eyes glued to the pavement, determinedly dodging the catcall invitations for free sangria and heaping bowls of pasta. So it is not surprising that I never noticed the Alleva Dairy cheese shop snuggled at the intersection of Mulberry and Grand Streets; ac...
Saratoga Springs picks up Augie’s Family Style Italian To-Go
A popular area restaurant is expanding to the Spa City with a new to-go location, where people can pick up family-style Italian cuisine. Augie’s Family Style Italian To-Go, an extension of Augie’s Family Style Italian Restaurant in Ballston Spa, opened on Wednesday afternoon at 223 Lake Ave. in Saratoga Springs. To celebrate, the business held a gr...
Ellis Island: il viaggio multidisciplinare di Maurizio Meta
“Il nonno di papà si imbarcò a Napoli nel 1890 e, dopo giorni di navigazione, arrivò a New York. In quel periodo, nel novembre del 1890, gli emigranti sbarcavano al Barge Office di Battery Park…” racconta Maurizio Igor Meta, attore, scrittore e regista che dal 2014 lavora a Ellis Island. Ellis Island è un progetto multidisciplinare che inizia dall...
Made in Italy to Be Celebrated in New York
The Italian Trade Commission will host an event tonight in New York to celebrate the best expressions of Made in Italy. The evening gala, to be held at Manhattan’s Spring Studios, will mark the end of the prestigious wine tasting event Vino 2017. During the evening, guests won’t only have the chance to taste the products of more than 70 high-end It...
Calabria: The Other Italy Book Presentations
NIAF member Karen Haid will be hosting two presentations of her book, “Calabria: The Other Italy,” at Italian cultural centers. The first will take place on Friday, February 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Westchester Italian Cultural Center in Tuckahoe, N.Y. This book presentation will also include a culinary demonstration and tasting of traditional Calab...
Students in grades 3-8! Now is the chance to enter your invention!
Deadline for entries Friday , February 17, 2017. Final Competition: Sunday, April 2, 2017. Calling All Young Inventors. In keeping with the legacy of inventor Antonio Meucci, The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is pleased to announce the: The 2017 Antonio Meucci Young Inventors’ Competition Throughout his lifetime, Antonio Meucci was responsible for many i...
Life on the Corner: Birds of Passage, Part 1
Of the twelve million immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954 four million were Italian and my grandmother, Colomba Cordani, was one of them. She left her small Northern Italian village of Ponte del Olio near Piacenza and arrived in New York on April 27, 1909 aboard the French Line steamship Chicago. The ship departed from LeHa...
Italy’s pizza-sandwich is coming to NYC
In a time of cultural erasure and broad public indecency, it's nice to see traditions and heritages respected. The next street food creation to hit NYC won't be a grotesque Frankenstein monster of fatty American favorites, like the infamous Double Down; but rather a revival of an old-school favorite from Italy: the Trapizzino. The triangular pizza...