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If you're anything like us, you travel to eat and drink your way through the cultures of the world, shamelessly plugging five meals a day into your itineraries in the name of research, gluttony, and personal glory. There's nothing more gratifying than finally eating that Bistecca alla Fiorentina we read about months ago or feeling ultra-cool when w...

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A phrasebook or traditional guidebook will equip you with enough knowledge to order food and track down the must-see monuments, but in order to really get under the skin of Italy, you'll need a different kind of reading material.Reading novels by Italian authors opens your eyes to the Italy beyond the tourist spots as well as telling the human side...

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Sunday, September 17. 3 PM - 5 PM EDT. Garibaldi-Meucci Museum. 420 Tompkins Ave, Staten Island 10305. Order Sons of Italy Literary Award Winner Marianna Randazzo will present her newest book: "Given Away, The Rest of the Story." It is the prequel/sequel of "Given Away, A Sicilian Upbringing." Tiziano Dossena, award winning Author, art critic and e...

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It gives me great pleasure to announce that on October 24, 2017, Nonna Romana and I will host a Pugliese dinner with recipes exclusively from my Cooking with Nonna Cookbook at the fine restaurant in Philadelphia, PA: Gran Caffe L'Aquila. The dinner will be a five course dinner with wines from the renowed winery of Puglia: Tormaresca. Nonna Romana a...

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Il 1 agosto 517, Ursicino, lettore della Scuola dei sacerdoti della cattedrale di Verona, annota, con firma e data, il manoscritto che ha appena finito di trascrivere con le agiografie, cioè le vite di due santi. Non poteva certamente nemmeno immaginare che il suo nome avrebbe contrassegnato, 1500 anni dopo, le origini della più antica biblioteca d...

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The Italian American Museum cordially invites you to attend a book reading and signing for "The Good Don" by Richard Mancuso. Thursday, September 7th, 6:30 PM. Light Refreshments Will Be Served. Italian American Museum - 155 Mulberry Street (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) - New York, NY 10013 About the Book: The Good Don is the story of a 19...

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Wednesday, October 04, 2017. From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm. Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065. Entrance: Free. Book now! The Italian Cultural Institute of New York and Magazzino Italian Art, the new warehouse art space in the Hudson Valley dedicated to Post-war and Contemporary Italian Art, announce Marco Anell...

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Amy moves from Italy to New York City to live near her American father. Her journey from immigrant to successful publisher is intertwined with the story of Stella, whose unfinished memoir she intends to publish.They both experience love, setbacks, and success, as their paths run parallel to the Vietnam War, student protests, hippie culture, the bir...

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Teenaged Eugenia has just moved to Los Angeles from Rome, and is about to start school. The year is 1992, and Eugenia is feeling sharp in her new Reebok Pumps. “If you worry,” her glamorous Italian movie star mother reminds her, “just pump your shoes.” Sneakers turn out to be the first of many bad choices that Eugenia makes in Chiara Barzini’s arre...

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Tuesday, October 03, 2017 at 6:30 pm. Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024. Organized by : IIC with NIAF & the George L. Graziadio Center, California State Long Beach. Entrance : Free On the occasion of Italian-American Heritage Month, the historian & writer Lawrence DiStasi will discuss his new...

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