Palm Beach Atlantic honors Vecellio on American Free Enterprise Day
By Andres David Lopez In 1938, after the dawn of the automobile age but before a national highway system, Italian immigrant Enrico Vecellio and a few partners founded a road-construction company. Today, Leo Vecellio Jr., Enrico's grandson, presides as chairman, president and CEO of Vecellio Group Inc., a contractor with highway, minin...
At Antica Trattoria in Bonita, local clams go Italian
by Annabelle Tometich • Hot Dish: Linguine in clam sauce from Antica Trattoria in Bonita Springs • Price: $17 • Description: Chef-owner Antonio Scotto starts this deceptively simple dish with a splash of good olive oil, a dozen clams harvested from Pine Island, fresh parsley and two kinds of garlic. "I have the raw, minced garli...
Il Tabarro (The Cloak) and Gianni Schicchi
Saturday, Jul 13 8:00pMore dates & times (1) Colony TheaterMiami Beach, FL Two One Act Operas with music by Giacomo Puccini. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is a drama evolved from a love triangle that ends tragically.Gianni Schicchi is a classic comedy based on a character mentioned in Dante's Inferno from "La Divina Commedia" that is characterized...
Open house at Naples Italian American Foundation
Naples Writer's and Authors Club is sponsoring a book sale from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Spanky's Speakeasy. The author's will be discounting their books. The restaurant is at 1550 Airport-Pulling Road, Naples. Information: 239-216-2317 Writers will submit original short fiction, poetry or essays to be read from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the...
Ocala, Pisa to renew sister-city partnership
By Carlos E. Medina After eight years of dormancy, the Ocala/Marion County Chamber and Economic Partnership has announced plans to rekindle the sister city relationship with Pisa, Italy. In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the initial visit to Ocala by officials from Pisa, an Ocala contingent will travel to Pisa for a 10-day tour...
Jodi's Italian Ice, Family-Owned Italian Ice Shop, to Open Late October
by Julie Harans In the age of outlandish froyo toppings and artificial flavors, it's time to get back to basics. Fortunately, a new kind of frozen dessert store will take root in Miami Beach this October, and it's bringing back the homemade touch that the sweet treat scene has been missing. Jodi's Italian Ice is as authentic as a...
First Ever Trust Mark Debuts In U.S. Italian Cheese
In response to decades of increased incidents of adulteration and fraud in the Italian hard cheese category, U.S. hard cheese leader Arthur Schuman Inc. (ASI) today announced the creation of the industry's first trust mark for quality assurance. The new True Cheese™ seal is intended to verify the integrity and quality of cheeses ASI makes...
Upcoming Italian Restaurant Le Farfalle Displays Signage
Crews are hustling at Le Farfalle to get the forthcoming Italian restaurant up and running soon at 15 Beaufain St. The door displays the logo, but there's still a lot going into the space right now. Le Farfalle predicted a June opening, but with two more days left in the month, that's highly unlikely. Eater has a feeling Charleston is will...
Thousands attend San Gennaro Festa in Safety Harbor
A man propped on a stool, wearing shorts, a red hat, white gloves and bearing an unusually long nose, piped up each time a person walked by Sunday. "Hi girls, I'm Pinocchio," the man said as a group of women walked into the Safety Harbor Marina for the 11th LIADO's San Gennaro Festa. "Welcome to Italy. Wipe your feet before you enter. Don'...
Black Olive brings Italian dining back to Jonesborough
Though the Johnson City restaurant scene is tootling merrily along, Jonesborough's got reason to crow with the addition of the newly opened Black Olive Italian restaurant. Located on Jackson Boulevard, Black Olive is 15 minutes from Johnson City, about 25 or so from Greeneville, is easily accessible and has a capacious parking lot. I first...
Italian granulator maker Tria expanding US operations
Tria SpA, the Italian maker of granulators, is expanding its U.S. operations in Charlotte, N.C., by adding a new test facility.Daniele Finazzi, vice president of operations at Tria America LLC, said customers can visit Charlotte to run material tests, or send in the material for testing by Tria staff.
Over years, restaurant has become 'like family'
Pompilios isn't the quietest dining place. After all, people like to laugh, babies sometimes cry and folks greeting each other warmly aren't bashful about it. Then there are the outside bocce courts, busy mid-spring through early fall, and no one's going to ask a bocce ball player to pipe down. "It's fun," JoEllen Thompson of East Row says sim...