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Prima giornata del sindaco Marco Doria a San Francisco. Appena dopo il suo arrivo nella città californiana il sindaco è stato accolto al St. Francis Yacht Club dal console italiano. È grazie al convinto impegno del consolato italiano a San Francisco che è stato possibile organizzare il fitto programma di colloqui e incontri con aziende e operatori...

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The 2014 Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco closed last week, following a three-day exhibition of more than 80,000 hand-crafted, artisan foods and beverages from more than 1,300 exhibitors from across the U.S. and around the world. Now on its 39th edition, the Winter Fancy Food Show is the West Coast's largest showcase dedicated to the latest...

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Columbus Foods has broken ground to expand its existing Hayward, Calif., salame curing and processing facility by an additional 55,000 square feet.   Set to be completed by July 2015, the new building will boast drying capacity for 23 million pounds of salame for the company, a venerable San Francisco Bay Area institution that has been bring...

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di Marianna Ruggieri   A soli 20 anni era già sui ponti, pronto a sfidare la forza di gravità. Non è più sceso. Neanche l'incidente che subì mentre costruiva il Golden Gate, a San Francisco, e che lo bloccò per mesi a letto, riuscì a farlo rimanere lontano da quei grovigli di acciaio che piano piano, diventavano i ponti più maestosi d'Americ...

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by Mauro Battocchi Sometimes we Italians complain that we don't have enough of a sense of national identity because of our relatively recent political unification (1861). Yet I believe that we are developing a sense of belonging to a national community. There are several indicators that point to that reality. One of them is rather visual: more and...

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by Mauro Battocchi   145: quite a number for San Francisco's Annual Italian Heritage Parade. On Sunday October 13, I will have the honor (and the pleasure) to take part in the 145th celebration of Italian culture in the City on the Bay. In North Beach, the Italian traditional neighborhood, people will be partying all over the week-end. We h...

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Now and again throughout his industrious and agreeable 100 years of life, Lou Colombano would be asked where he attended college. He remarked in an interview earlier this year at his home in Healdsburg, "I always say I went to the College of Geyserville."   His education in the verdant valley town of northern Sonoma County encompassed t...

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There's no letting up for Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The dean of San Francisco booksellers, who co-founded City Lights Bookstore in 1953 and helped launch the Beat movement, published a book of poetry, "Time of Useful Consciousness," in 2012. When he's not at City Lights, Ferlinghetti is at work on his paintings at his art studio in Hunters Point....

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Whether you are planning an overseas adventure to the old Kingdom of Trinacria, or simply love all things Sicilian, there is one person who can provide you with all the Sicilian lore you need to know: Professor Douglas Kenning.   Douglas Kenning spends half of each year in Sicily, where he runs a tourism company, and the second half in the S...

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by Mauro Battocchi   For those who may have forgotten the meaning of Italian passion, the Viva L'Italia Gala event at the Fairmont Hotel this past Saturday served as an enthralling reminder. The energy and joy in the room was palpable, as guests enjoyed an ardent performance in support of Naples and bringing the Teatro di San Carlo to San Fr...

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