Bringing some Italy to Crawfordsville
By Leeann Doerflein Chef Yusmin Puche Gottardo is bringing her authentic Italian cooking that has grown popular at farmers markets in Crawfordsville and Lafayette to a storefront at 127 E. Main Street. Gottardo and her husband, Valentino, are bringing Crawfordsville a taste of the old country their new restaurant, Valentino Italian Cuisine...
Franklin's new Italian Trattoria restaurant is a one-man showBy
by Emily R. West The timer started chirping on Matthew Antonovich's phone in his back pocket. Looking up from pounding out his pasta dough, he strides toward the oven, the smells providing only a sampling of what's to come. "I do all of this myself," he said, reaching toward the handle. He then resets the timer on the bread. "This is...
Jubilee year restaurants: haute cuisine in convents and monasteries
by Donata Marrazzo At around 9 pm, in the frescoed rooms of Palazzo Lante, in the via Monterone, near Piazza Navona, in Rome, the Missionary Workers of the Immaculate start chanting the Ave Maria. It is the prayer sung by the workers that run the Eau Vive, a restaurant that specializes in French, international, and fusion cuisine: the...
The IACC celebrates 25 years of activity
2016 will be a special year for the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast (IACC) as we will celebrate, with a rich calendar of initiatives, the 25th anniversary of this fine institution. In 1991, when the Chamber was established, the Italian community in the US Southeast was made up of a few thousand people, now there are more than 30,00...
NOIAW Scholarship Winner Antonella Vitale To Present at UPenn Sicily Conference on Feb 11
Antonella Vitale, PhD candidate in the Department of History at City University of New York, will present a piece of her dissertation, focused on the oral histories she gathered in Sicily last summer, at an upcoming conference at the University of Pennsylvania. Antonella was a winner of NOIAW's 2015 scholarship program. Antonella said via...
Il Volo treats audience to evening of melodic bliss
by Matt Chandler Their third studio album, "L'amore si muove," has reached No. 1 on the Italian charts and they have appearances on "American Idol" and "Entourage" to their credit. Still, the easy-on-the-eyes – and ears – Italian trio collectively known as Il Volo is far from a household name in the United States. That didn't stop a l...
Composer Ennio Morricone to Be Honored With Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
by Jacob Bryant Film composer Ennio Morricone is being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Morricone will receive the 2,574th star on the Walk of Fame — located on 7065 Hollywood Boulevard — on Feb. 26 at 11:30 a.m. Event emcee and Hollywood Chamber president-CEO Leron Gubler will unveil the star with help from director Qu...
Laura Vitale: South Jersey's rising culinary star preps for season two of 'Simply Laura'
With Cooking Channel's Laura Vitale, what you see really is what you get. Vitale, a native of Italy but has been a resident of Atlantic County since age 12, is a self-taught 29-year-old culinary personality who earned her stripes as the star of her self-created Web series "Laura in the Kitchen." Vitale, regarded for her mix of all-America...
Strolling at Ninfa, Italy’s most romantic garden
Ninfa is a beautiful garden that in 2000 was nominated a "Natural Monument of the Lazio Region". And Ninfa is indeed a beautiful place that the British garden expert Rory Stuart recently included it in the top ten of world's most beautiful gardens, describing it as "a romantic ruin garden created by three generations of woman, with water everywhere...
Neighborhood Find: Roman Cucina in North Dallas
My sister-in-law Sarah eats at Roman Cucina in North Dallas at least once a week. She knows most of the staff, particularly the bartender who makes her favorite Tito's Vodka martini. Sarah has been trying to get me to eat there for years. I joined her last Saturday. I left with a smile on my face and not just because of the food. Roman Cuc...
Bill of Fare: Morrisville's Salute Ristorante on the rise
When Vincenzo Severino sold Avanti in Pennington in 2014 he wasn't finished with the restaurant business. "I wasn't done. I just needed a break after 21 years straight," he said. That break lasted a year, until a friend told him about an opening in the Big Oak Shopping Center across the Delaware River in Morrisville, Pa. He and his wife K...
Enjoy Aperitivo in Piazza to Benefit of Italian Language Education
Join the vibrant community of Bay Area Italian language supporters on Sunday, May 1, 2016 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Italian Cultural Institute at 601 Van Ness Ave in San Francisco. The special event, called Aperitivo in Piazza, is hosted by the Istituto Italiano Scuola and will be a gathering of friends and family around the time-hono...