Lenny Russo celebrates Midwest bounty
Lenny Russo has taken anything but the straight path in life. How a native of Hoboken, N.J., came to Minneapolis and became a champion of Midwestern foods and farmers is a story of purpose and planning. "Nobody comes to Minnesota for the weather," notes Russo, who left a career as a therapist to cook professionally. Celebrating culinary...
Federalimentare "scippa" l'Italian sounding a Coldiretti
Fino a quattro o cinque anni fa il tema dell'Italian sounding agroalimentare era una "proprietà" riservata di Coldiretti. Quando si citava l'Italian sounding non era possibile omettere la stima dell'associazione di categoria che indicava in 60 miliardi di euro il valore del fenomeno, a danno dell'Italia. Ora il tema è stato ripreso co...
John Cristiano to lead Goshen parade as grand marshal
Heroes are everywhere, if we look hard enough. The honor of being grand marshal for Monday's Memorial Day parade in Goshen has been bestowed on John B. Cristiano, 87, of Goshen, N.Y. Cristiano immigrated with his family from Castlegrande, Italy, in 1947. His father had been crossing the Atlantic to earn money in the United States to send h...
CIACO sets charitable record at 2016 Honor and Hope Gala
More than 400 members, honorees and guests gathered on April 16 at Alta Villa Banquets in Addison for CIACO's annual Honor and Hope Gala. This year's gala honored Humanitarian of the Year John McCallion. In addition, 20 scholarships were awarded to college-bound students who qualified based on financial need and academic achievement. The event als...
Addio a Enzo Torresi, gigante italiano della Silicon Valley
ADESSO che, grazie a Skype e WhatsApp, un figlio informatico o pubblicitario che lavora a Shanghai è quasi solo un problema di fuso orario, fatichiamo a renderci conto di quanto un tempo fossero vissuti come definitivi i distacchi da chi, come Enzo Torresi, partiva per scelta o per caso per fare ricerca e creare valore in California anziché nella s...
The land of espresso now has a coffee university
by Ilaria Vesentini The land that elevated coffee to an art form is now making it a science. The new international research and innovation center for coffee inaugurated in recent days by espresso machine maker Nuova Simonelli Group and the University of Camerino (a small and historic city of less than 7,000 people in the Marche region...
Snaidero Usa chosen as sole kitchen cabinetry provider for Sunny Isles' Ultra-Lu
Snaidero USA, the leader in North American imports of European kitchen cabinets, has been chosen as the exclusive kitchen cabinetry provider for the Château Beach project in Sunny Isles Beach. The 33-story, 81-unit beachfront residences are a product of Argentine's leading developer Château Group. Château Beach is the most recent luxurious property...
The government unveils its 2017-2023 strategic plan for the tourism industry
by Marzio Bartoloni The government has just drawn up its 2017-2023 strategic plan for the tourism industry, one of most undervalued sectors in the nation. Revenue totaled €35.8 billion in 2015, putting Italy in seventh place in value and fifth (after France, the USA, Spain and China) in number of visitors (50.7 million). That's too few giv...
The Italian Way: Celebrating Ferragosto
WTI Magazine #82 2016 August 19Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: While I was working on my American schedule on August 15th, I got many emails and text messages wishing me "Buon Ferragosto," "Buona Festa" from my Italian friends and family. It took me a couple of seconds to realize that in Italy, this very day is a day of...
Why Do Italians Live Longer?
If you're like me, you've often asked yourself, "Why do Italians live longer and stay so trim while consuming daily portions of pasta?" Perhaps you even read the recent article debunking the notion that pasta makes you fat. Vindication for feeding my daughter pasta every day! (The truth is, she's at a picky stage where she won't eat much else.) Ye...
Arthur Avenue Celebrates Ferragosto
By Kathryn Roberts It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. As a nation mourned the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an aroma of spices and sweets drifted down Arthur Avenue Sunday for the 19th consecutive year at the annual Ferragosto Festival. Tourists, neighborhood locals and students navigated through crowde...
Rosi's Fire at Sea is Italy's Oscar contender
Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare is Italy's contender for the best foreign language film at the 2017 Oscars. The movie was selected on Monday from a field of seven by a committee at the offices of film industry association ANICA. 'Fuocoammare' (Fire At Sea) is a documentary about Italian migrant stepping-stone island Lampedusa. It looks at the lives...