Small Business Spotlight: Stone Mountain Italian restaurant features seasonal menu
Fresca Trattoria, a locally owned Italian restaurant with a seasonal menu, opened two months ago in Stone Mountain at 1227 Rockbridge Road. It is adjacent to Kroger and Mountain Park First Baptist Church in Stone Mountain. Pastry Chef Lisa Myers, one of the co-owners, has lived in Lilburn for 27 years and said they chose Italian because they believ...
In Italy, the world’s first underwater garden: Nemo’s Garden
An innovative and ingenious idea was brought to life by an insight from Sergio Gamberini, founder of the leading underwater equipment company, Ocean Reef Group. The Italian engineer, along with his company’s team, has created a new scenario for future sustainable agriculture. The world’s first underwater garden was born in Liguria, on the seabed of...
Italian Film Study with Wagner College Professor Holly Van Buren
When: Wednesday, April 10th from 6:30 to 8 pm - Where: Galleria at the Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere La Dolce Vita: Fantasy and Modernity in Italian Cinema of the 1960s As a dramatic departure from the gritty realism of Italy’s Neorealist films of the 1940s and 1950s, Italian cinema of the 1960s embraces modernism and the director...
The mysterious Fairy Chimneys in Italy
Italy, in its vast wealth of landscapes, holds rock formations with enigmatic charm and an almost mythical appearance. These are the Fairy Chimneys, also known as earth pyramids, which evoke fairy-tale scenery, appear to be carved by divine hands and populated, perhaps, by magical creatures. These formations, though most frequently associated with...
Meet The Traditional Sardinian Dessert Dumplings Seadas Thanks To NYC's Epistrophy
When you think of dessert, you probably don't picture a hot, melty cheese pull, but that's exactly what you'll get from seadas, a quintessential Sardinian dessert. The Italian island boasts a unique culinary identity shaped by centuries spent bouncing between the rule of various European powers. It's internationally known for fregola pasta and its...
Sanremo, Italy Travel Guide: Things to Do for an Unforgettable Trip
Sanremo sits on Italy's northwest coast, a standout spot on the Italian Riviera. It's not just a pretty face; it's a cultural powerhouse, home to the Sanremo Music Festival and the Milan–San Remo bike race. Forget the myth of Saint Remus; the name really comes from "Sant'Eremo di San Romolo," nodding to Romulus of Genoa. Historical Overview Long ag...
2024 High School Scholarship Now Available!
Requirements for $2,500 Scholarship (Due Monday, May 6, 2024): 1. Must be of at least twenty-five (25%) Italian-American descent, one parent at least ½ Italian. 2. Must be going to a post-secondary school/training/certification program and must be a senior at a Washington County School District (Avella, Bentworth, Beth-Center, Brownsville...
Castello di Sammezzano: The Abandoned Tuscan Castle That May Never Reopen its Doors
The Tuscan town of Leccio is best known for The Mall, a fashion outlet behemoth featuring luxury brands such as Prada, Ermanno Scervino, Roberto Cavalli, and the like, on sale at popular prices. Buses departing regularly from Florence city center ferry tourists to and fro this glorified strip mall, which gets a similar number of yearly visitors as...
Little Italy’s Farmer’s Table to Rebrand to New Italian Concept
Farmer’s Table, a farm-to-table restaurant from the San Diego Dining Group, has announced plans to transform its Little Italy site at 550 West Date Street, Suite A, into a yet-to-be-named Italian concept. San Diego Dining Group is behind some of the city’s most well-known restaurants, including Greystone The Steakhouse, Osetra The Fishhouse, Osteri...
Le Marche Region Map & Travel Guide
Recently, large publications that send writers out to a particular foreign destination for a week every year or two have taken to the practice of calling Le Marche "the next Tuscany." It is hard to tell what they mean. It's not crowded with English speakers, the landscape is very different, the shutters are mostly brown instead of green. The food,...
Giancarlo Esposito Moves Into Graphic Novels With ‘The Venetian’
Giancarlo Esposito, star of series including Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, is staying in the criminal underworld with his latest project. Esposito, coming off another turn as the sophisticated boss of a meth empire in Netflix’s The Gentlemen, is launching his first graphic novel. He has co-created The Venetian, a story of commitment and sacrif...
Roots Travels: Cilento, the silent soul of Campania
One of the regions of Italy from which many emigrants left in search of a better life is Campania, especially its southern rural areas, characterized by small villages that have greatly diminished in size but are still rich in culture, charm, and stories. One such mysterious and bucolic place is called Cilento: let’s find out more about it! If we t...