Expo Milano 2015 greatly helped agribusiness penetration in foreign markets
by Roberto Iotti The six months of Expo Milano 2015 dedicated to sustainable agriculture with its 20 million visitors helped push the agribusiness trade balance to a new record in November, so much so that the Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies said that the goal of €50 billion in exports by 2020 is increasingly within re...
Ferrari 335S Spider Scaglietti sells for US$35.7 million
by Mike Hanlon A Ferrari 335S Spider Scaglietti sold for US$35.7 million (€32,075,200) at Artcurial's Retromobile auction in Paris on 5 February. The car narrowly failed to break the world record of $38.115 million set by a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO in August, 2014, but eclipsed the $29.605 million fetched by Juan Manuel Fangio's 1954 Mercedes-Benz W19...
NJPAC Presents Patrizio Buanne
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents an evening with international multiplatinum recording artist Patrizio Buanne on Friday, October 28, 2016 at 8:00pm in the Victoria Theater. Buanne has impressed around the world with his ballads and uptempo tunes, all rooted in the pop traditions of his Italian homeland, earning him the title "The...
IL Volo delights a sold-out Atlantic City crowd
IL Volo, the popular Italian trio, recently performed their music at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City. The sold-out concert brought hundreds of screaming fans who gave numerous standing ovations to the group that puts their own twist on classic operatic songs. Founded in 2009, the group consists of baritone Gianluca Ginoble along...
Skinhead-turned-peace-advocate Christian Picciolini
At least the story starts in familiar fashion: Christian Picciolini's parents emigrated from Italy to the United States, where they would meet, marry, raise a family and work hard at building a successful small business. But without his parents around to attend his school functions and sports game, Picciolini turned to a heartbreaking plac...
Vigne Surrau: Sardinian Winery Fusing Nature and Art
Whatever membrane exists between this life and the universal mystery is palpably thin in Sardinia's Gallura: ancient nuraghi, megalithic monuments left by the island's enigmatic Nuragic civilization, are vibrant in their stillness; collar bells ring out as shepherd dogs herd sheep in the indigo twilight; ageless, fantastic forms of wind-sculpted gr...
Francesco Inguaggiato: dal basket alla ristorazione guidato dalla voglia di farcela
di Roberta Pinna Al ristorante Bellino di Portland fervono i preparativi per la festa del primo compleanno che ci sarà il prossimo 14 aprile; nonostante i tempi sai che notizia un ristorante italiano negli States che festeggia un anno di vita! E invece in questo caso c'è una storia da raccontare...una storia di coraggio, di successi e...
Italians rejoice! New study finds eating Pasta is healthy
Pasta is much loved by people all around the world, but it also gets an unfair share of bad press. Maligned as an unhealthy fattening dish, pasta is actually good for you if cooked the right way. A new study published in the April issue of Today's dietician, says that pasta can be a healthful carbohydrate source if it's cooked al dent...
Ferrari names Fiat Chrysler chief Marchionne as CEO
Sergio Marchionne took full control of super sports carmaker Ferrari NV, adding the CEO title on Monday to that of chairman as he positions the carmaker in the luxury goods space and seeks to regain Formula 1 glory. Marchionne's replacement of CEO Amedeo Felisa came as Ferrari posted its best first-quarter earnings ever, a 19-percent incre...
Cossetta's expanding again, with $4 million project
Cossetta's plans a 500-person event center in a next-door property in the latest expansion by the St Paul Italian restaurant. The Pioneer Press has the details on the plan, which will expand the restaurant's already-busy catering operation, Cossetta Eventi, currently housed in the building next to the restaurant on West Seventh Street. ...
City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics
Rome exists not only as an intensely physical place, but also as a romantic idea onto which artists, poets, and writers project their own imaginations and longings. City of the Soul examines the evolving image of Rome in art and literature with a display of books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and drawings. This groundbreaking exhibiti...
Ciao, baby! Our guide to the Italian Festival
by Ken Mammarella St. Anthony of Padua's 42nd annual Italian Festival brings a Renaissance theme – and food and drink, music, expressions of faith, rides, games, handicrafts and more food and drink – to Wilmington, Sunday through June 19. The festival, which boasts the third biggest crowds of any Delaware event – 73,000, after Fir...