Italian customs seize huge haul of Roman artefacts
They were discovered in a joint operation by Italy's customs officers and finance police, who seized three containers at the La Spezia port. They belonged to an American businessman, who had intended to send them on to his villa in the Tuscan countryside, a statement from customs said. However, he was unable to provide a satisfactory explanati...
How Luxury Fashion Houses are Revitalizing Italy's Most Historic Cafés
In Italy, the most important decisions of the day revolve around what to wear and what to eat. So it seems inevitable that top fashion brands are venturing into the food business—specifically, the hybrid bakery-cafés where well-dressed Italians congregate over morning pastries, then lunch, aperitivi and savory snacks, all the way through to late-ni...
Houston-area Italian restaurants join global earthquake relief fundraiser
Last month, a massive 6.2 magnitude earthquake devastated a number of towns located in the mountains approximately 85 miles east of Rome including Amatrice. Restaurants all over the world have responded by donating proceeds from their version of the town's signature dish, pasta all'Amatriciana, to earthquake relief efforts. The dishes basi...
Taste of Italy at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Springfield set for Saturday
The ambiance at this annual festival will be strictly Italian. Italian food and music will be the focus as Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish presents A Taste of Italy on Saturday, Oct. 1, from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at the school auditorium at 36 Margaret St., Springfield. "The colors, the warmth, the tastes, smells and the music heard -- all w...
Chef's creations make pizza a finger food
John "Guido" Magnacca has put a new twist on an old classic. Magnacca, executive chef at Pinnacle Golf Club in Grove City, said his Italian Twisty Rolls are available for retail sales. "The world's first and only finger pizzas," as Magnacca describes his Italian Twisty Rolls, consist of three Italian meats and cheese wrapped in pizza doug...
Ten Years of Italians In The BAIA of SF
The year was 2005. Around the start of the web 2.0 era. LinkedIn just went from less than 100,000 to 1M members. Business networking was limited to Ivy League business school alumni associations, vendors driven tech gatherings, industry associations, and the classic clubs: from your dad's Rotary to exclusive "co-member nominated" business councils....
New Little Italy Board Members
Little Italy is pleased to announce that we have added Marco Zecchin as Treasurer to the Little Italy San Jose Board of Directors. Marco Zecchin has been our resident Photographer and a dedicated volunteer for the past three years. Marco is also the owner of the Image Center in Los Gatos and is involved in numerous charitable organizations througho...
Slim Manicotti is ALWAYS cookin’
by David Witter What do you get when you mix an Italian kid from Baltimore with classical music, Motown and jazz and add a little marinara sauce on the side? Timoteo Camponeschi, better known as Slim Manicotti, aka Slim Man. A singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, cook, author, TV personality and all around Renaissance man, Camponeschi has recorde...
Songs of Angels Italian Christmas Hymns and Carols
When: 10 Dec 2016 at 7:30 PM - Doors open at 7PMWhere: Saint Ann Catholic Church, 704 Jefferson St., Hoboken, NJ 07030 Castaldo will perform classic Christmas carols from his chart-topping best-selling album, "Extravergine: Christmas in the Mediterranean," accompanied by a string quartet. One-hundred percent of ticket sales will benefit Saint Ann...
How to see some of Italy’s most iconic sites without a crowd
There's an odd hush in the Sistine Chapel. Normally, this place is swarming, with up to 25,000 people visiting every day. But I'm here with just a few dozen others early on a Wednesday morning, before this celebrated holy site is officially open to the masses.ù As we crane our necks to admire Michelangelo's masterpieces on the vaulted ceil...
Honor societies visit Tenement Museum
As an extension of a lesson on Italian and German immigration, the Italian and German Honor Society students, led by their teachers Vincenza Certosimo and Evelyn Erli, visited the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. The students toured the restored apartments of the Baldizzi and the Gumpertz families. The students develope...
Old World Italian Cialde Wafer Iron Now Available Worldwide from Our Home Village
According to local Tuscan folklore, sickness convent nuns made Eucharistic hosts for local churches during the Renaissance period using an engraved wafer iron. During festival times, stomach they would add sugar and anise seeds for a unique sweet treat called "Cialde". An exact wafer iron replica is now available to pastry chefs, pharm home bake...