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Join 2015 NOIAW DC Region Wise Woman Honoree Amy Riolo for a special presentation and book signing. Amy is an award-winning author, chef, television personality, cuisine and culture expert, and Mediterranean diet advocate.   Amy will discuss the various health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. Recent studies show that people who follow a M...

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WHEN: Saturday, SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 @ 5:45 PM WHERE: @ Cornelia St. Café @ 29 Cornelia St. off Bleeker WHO: Nancy Caronia is a Lecturer in the Honors Program at University of Rhode Island, where she teaches contemporary literature, composition, and creative writing. Caronia's creative writing has most recently appeared in Animal, New Delta Review,...

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di Claudia Cecconato   Forse non tutti conoscono la storia dei Buffalo Soldiers. Una divisione dell'esercito USA, formata da soldati neri americani con a capo un comandante bianco, razzista. Come gli altri Alleati i Buffalo combatterono al fianco dei partigiani per liberare l'Italia dal nazifascismo.   In particolare quella parte del...

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Sicily, 1935: Sarina, a young woman with three children, gives up her young daughter Tina to her aunt Vittoria, who lives in a different town, with no apparent explanation. The child, just four, at first is intrigued by the move, which she believes to be a summer vacation, but slowly reality settles in and her journey into abandonment begins. &nbs...

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The Edith Wheeler Memorial Library will host a free talk by Anthony Riccio, author of Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut, on Saturday, March 14, from 1 to 2 p.m., in the library’s Ehlers Meeting Room.   Riccio’s presentation will focus on the roles of Italian-American women who, after immigrating from south...

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Nicholas Caggiano, commissioner of the Delaware Commission on Italian Heritage and Culture, and Maria Teresa Morrison, representative of both the commission and UNICO, donated copies of a book on recovered Italian art to Cape Henlopen High School's Italian students and to the main CHHS library.   The book is a catalog of art that was exhibit...

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By Brian Handwerk   America's love affair with Christopher Columbus has been a rocky one. Some savor his day to celebrate Italian-American heritage, while others chafe at the impropriety of honoring a man who enslaved and killed thousands of native peoples.   But our ubiquitous statues and "Columbias" testify to how passionately most...

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Una rivoluzione dell’editoria paragonabile a quella dell’e-book? Non bisogna guardare in avanti per immaginare scenari futuristici, ma ripercorrere la storia a ritroso. E precisamente al XV secolo, puntando la lente d’ingrandimento su una Venezia spesso sconosciuta anche negli ambienti accademici più raffinati.   Era il 1494 quando l’umanist...

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di Sante Rifino   È stato presentato a New York il libro Built with Faith (Costruito con la fede), di Joseph Sciorra, direttore per i programmi accademici e culturali del Calandra Italian American Instiute del Queens College - CUNY.   In un affollato evento tenuto nella sede di Manhattan del Calandra, Sciorra, tra i più autorevoli stu...

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October 16 - 6 pm - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011. On the occasion of the publication of: Nutella World, 50 Years of Innovation (Rizzoli, 2015), by Gigi Padovani. The author in conversation with journalist Gianni Riotta (RAI, La Stampa) and Eataly NYC Manager Dino Borri. M...

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