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Il primo container per l’America prenderà il largo a fine febbraio: trasporterà prodotti alimentari siciliani con l’etichetta della rete di imprese made in Sicily “Gustoso”. Salse, sciroppi di zucchero, vinaigrette, vino e caffè sbarcheranno sugli scaffali della gdo americana di Walmart e Sam’s Club. Con la prima spedizione diventa così pienamente...

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Spending time in the prolific kitchens of Bruno's NYC Bakery in Dongan Hills means learning from the master himself, master pastry chef Biagio Settepani, as he walks an observer through the process of building Italian desserts. Take the cassata cake, a complex specialty of the Bruno house. The dessert, the pastry patriarch and his colleague/son Joe...

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Leaving home is never easy. When that journey means saying goodbye to your "terra madre" — or loosely translated, motherland — crossing the Atlantic and settling into an area that is just as foreign to you as the language, “difficult” doesn't even begin to cover it. Take it from Vita Maria Mesnick. With her Italian heritage and love of teaching per...

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In this episode of The Italian American Podcast episode, I speak with Dan Yaccarino, an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator with more than thirty books to his credit. We’re going to talk specifically about one of his books called All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel. The children’s book details his...

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Nei giorni in cui risuona negli aeroporti siciliani l’amaro trascinarsi dei trolley dei nostri figli all’estero, pendolari per le Feste, si affollano nella mente le immagini di Ellis Island dove nei primi anni del ‘900 approdarono oltre 4 milioni di italiani, in larga parte provenienti dal meridione e in cerca di una vita migliore. Nello specchio l...

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To people of Italian – and especially Sicilian Italian – descent who have had DNA tests and are bothered that results didn’t show them to be 100% genetically Italian – don’t sweat it. In fact, if anything, these results could just be proof of how Italian you really are! Before I explain, first of all let’s establish that when most of us say we’re I...

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Una vita passata a promuovere la letteratura italiana in America. Catanese, arrivata New York da bambina, Olga Ragusa fece conoscere agli americani autori come i suoi conterranei Luigi Pirandello, Giuseppe Verga e Tomasi di Lampedusa, ma anche, più di recente, l’Umberto Eco del «Nome della Rosa». Professoressa emerita di italiano a Columbia, presid...

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M.S. Walker has announced that it is introducing Amaro dell’Etna, a Sicilian digestif that has been produced near Mt. Etna in Italy for more than 100 years, into the U.S. market. Amaro dell’Etna has its roots, both literally and figuratively, on the slopes of Mt. Etna, where more than twenty-six native herbs and aromatic plants used to craft this s...

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It's not often that restaurants, especially popular ones, get a head-to-toe menu revamp. But a culinary overhaul seemed appropriate for Sud Italia Ristorante when it hired Maurizio Ferrarese, former executive chef of Quattro at the Four Seasons Hotel Houston, as the head toque of the Rice Village restaurant. Just over a month into his new stint as...

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A Providence comedian, actor, and writer is headed to New York City for a 10-day run of his one-man-play, "The Last Sicilian." Nick Albanese grew up the son of Sicilian immigrants on Charles Street in Providence, with the whole family living on the second floor above his father's bakery, and rolls those funny but true-life experiences into his show...

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