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di Fucsia Nissoli   In seguito alla mia lettera al Presidente dell'INPS, prof. Tito Boeri, ho ricevuto dallo stesso Presidente Boeri una risposta articolata ed esaustiva nella quale si evidenzia l'attenzione dell'Ente previdenziale italiano verso le problematiche dei pensionati italiani all'estero. Una risposta che r...

By Alia Blackburn   If you're looking for a slice of Italy... Look no further than Downtown Clinton! The Little Italy Festival is in full swing. The event has been a Clinton favorite since 1966. The Italian theme seemed natural at that time, since the city had a thriving Italian immigrant population.   While the festival is...

Many American cities have areas famous for their large populations of Italian immigrants. In New York it is Little Italy, in Boston the North End and in St. Louis the Hill. It was only natural that those seeking a new life in a foreign land would settle among family and friends. Here it was in the southside Greenbush neighborhood, affectionately ni...

Based on Antica Mare's menu proclamations, you'd expect a line of waiting diners stretching from the Shorecrest restaurant's front door to the 79th Street Causeway. "Best chicken you could ever eat!" "First authentic Tuscan restaurant in Florida!" "Best octopus in the world!" "Owner's favorite dish — you'll eat everything except the bone!" &n...

So yesterday we showed you a Lamborghini Huracan Avio going into an air force museum in America to pay homage to that car's aviation inspirations. Now the Italians show us how that's done with Lamborghini Passioni Tricolori in which the Avio joins some Ducati bikes and the Italian Air Force for a hugely spectacular stunt.   Lamborghini Passi...

All White House State Dinners pull out the stops to impress, but for his 13th and final gala, President Barack Obama set a high bar for his food-and-wine purveyors with his choice of guests: the Italians, specifically Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini.   Accordingly, the gourmands at the White House called up some of A...

We're settling into carb season, folks, which is mighty fine time for a pasta omakase to debut in New York. Every Sunday at 7pm from November 6th through December 18, husband-and-wife chefs Scott Tacinelli and Angie Rito (Quality Italian, dinnertable) will take over the kitchen of New York Sushi Ko for a limited-seating pop-up "pasta lab."  ...

By Alison Goldman  "It's the best thing that's happened to Boston in a long time." That's how two-time James Beard Award-winning chef and Eataly Boston collaborator Barbara Lynch describes the Italian food emporium, which is slated to open November 29.   Eataly Boston, a 45,000-square-foot, multi-floor behemoth at 800 Boylston St....

By Dianne Hales Blonde-haired, creator of the Dream of Italy newsletter and PBS travel series, doesn't look Italian—nor does her name sound Italian. But the first time she visited her great-grandfather's village in Campania, McCabe felt that she had come home.   "When I was growing up in New Jersey, I spent a lot of time with my maternal gr...

Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia Andrea Canepari received the prestigious "2016 Biannual Global Award" from Temple University this past November 9, for his work in building bridges between Italy and Pennsylvania, in particular through the success of Ciao Philadelphia, the Italian Cultural Month with more than 70 events, which this year has r...

by Mattie John Bamman   Figlia Americana, the new Italian-American cafe serving breakfast and lunch, opens Friday, December 23, at 1100 SE Grand Ave. (inside the Rejuvenation lighting and hardware store). Figlia is the follow-up to Renata (The Oregonian's 2015 Restaurant of the Year), and owners Sandra and Nick Arnerich say they hadn't plann...

Global Health e Disaster Preparedness. Questi i due argomenti dell'ordine del giorno del seminario della Washington Psychiatric Society (http://www.dcpsych.org) ospitato la scorsa settimana dall'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington. L'evento è servito a definire la formulazione del programma per il prossimo evento Global Health, previsto dall'accordo...