Harvesting from Italy to Georgia
What happens when a girl gets a Bachelor's degree in History and can't find a job? She learns a trade. And for Lauren Cox, that meant serving in a restaurant in her hometown in Arkansas. "It was crap. The food was from Sysco, there was no passion," Cox said. "I started to develop an overall consideration for what I was putting into my body...
MALDEN MUSINGS Memories from St. Rocco’s Feast, 2013
The sights, the sounds, as well as the inside scoop on the 84th annual Saint Rocco Grande Festa. Held every second weekend in August for the past 84 years on the streets of Edgeworth in Ward 2, the Feast has become one of the last vestiges of Malden's storied past, a tradition held close to those of us who grew up in this great city of ours, who g...
Italian-American Heritage Association celebrates national Italian Heritage Month
The Italian-American Heritage Association was founded in July by five members who shared the same passion to provide a venue for all who want to preserve, share and celebrate their Italian Heritage. Membership consists of people of Italian descent and associate members who are not Italian but want to enjoy Italian heritage and culture. &n...
Italian Welfare League - New York City
The Italian Welfare League will be hosting its annual "Autumn in New York Luncheon" to benefit Italian-American children in need. NIAF proudly is a sponsor of the luncheon which will take place on October 19, at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. For more information visit: http://italianwelfareleague.org/. Fonte: NIAF ...
COMITES Film Calendar for Italian-American Heritage Month
COMITES will be screening four different Italian movies during the course of Italian-American Heritage Month.All screenings are and open to the public.Film titles, as well as show time, date and location listed below: Thursday, October 17 — 7:30 p.m. at 11 Tileston St., Boston MABenvenuti al Norddir. Luca Minierowith Claudio Bisio and Alessandro S...
Nissoli (SC) alla presentazione del libro ‘Il castello sull'Hudson’: il sogno americano è possibile
L'on. Fucsia Nissoli è intervenuta ieri sera al Centro Studi Americani di Roma alla presentazione del libro "Il castello sull'Hudson" di Renato Cantore che racconta la storia di successo di un italoamericano che ha contributo a costruire New York agli inizi del secolo scorso. La deputata eletta all'estero per Scelta Civica, nel suo intervento, all...
Italian land and nature: Salento’s gems, Santa Cesarea Terme and Castro
WTI Magazine #5 2013 Nov, 15Author : Maurizio Gabriele Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti If "USA Today", the most popular newspaper in America, included Lecce (10th of March 2011) among the "10 great places to go off the beaten path in Italy", the credit - without any doubt – for this belongs to the fasc...
Don’t Miss the Mercato di Natale in SF
by Mauro Battocchi The first annual edition of Mercato di Natale (Italian Christmas Market) will be held in San Francisco on December 7th and 8th from 10am to 6pm, in collaboration with DIVE (Donne Italiane che Vivono all'Estero), a dynamic group of Italian women expats living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Enjoy Silicon Valley, a local...
Staten Island Education Administrator Angela Scotto Carannante to Appear in Off-Broadway's MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING
My Big Gay Italian Wedding will host a very special performance on Saturday, March 8th, 2014 when Angela Scotto Carannante takes to the stage to officiate the wedding of "Anthony Pinnunziato" and "Andrew Polinski." Angela Scotto Carannante, better known as "Signora" to most who know her in the Staten Island Community where she has worked a...
Have Your Kids learn Italian: a “Niche” Choice with a High Payoff
By Mauro Battocchi For parents, it's not always easy to choose the best education for their kids. The stakes are high: if the right choice is made, their career potential is enhanced, as well as their kids' ability to acquire a solid cultural experience which will make them capable of dealing with the multifaceted challenges of today's world. Whe...
Il cioccolato italiano alla conquista di New York
di Daniela Sapone Inaugurato il primo store newyorkese di Amedei, marchio nato dall'idea di Cecilia Tessieri, la prima donna nel mondo a ricoprire il ruolo di maître chocolatier Delle delizie di cioccolato completamente made in Italy. Amedei, l'azienda toscana fondata dalla maître chocolatier Cecilia Tessieri, ha inaugurato la sua...
Processions and parties in the snow for the Dolomites' happiest Carnival
The Ladin Carnevale of Val di Fassa has already begun this year, having kicked off on January 17th (the Feast Day of Sant'Antonio Abate, Patron Saint of Alba di Canazei). In Fassa, where "carnascèr" (Carnival) is the perculiar expression of local culture, in which irony and irreverence are the main ingredients of every Carnivalesque event....