Italian/American train wreck memorial: La raccolta fondi non decolla
Risultati deludenti per la raccolta fondi online lanciata per contribuire al progetto "Italian/American Train Wreck Memorial - Honoring The Forgotten Victims After 115 Years".Si tratta di un monumento che, dopo anni di oblio, intende commemorare i più di 100 migranti italiani, da poco sbarcati negli usa, che il 28 novembre 1901 morirono alla vigili...
Ciao Bella: Business Group Celebrates Via Umbria
Via Umbria was the scene for the latest Georgetown Business Association networking reception July 20.The increasingly popular Italian store at 1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW is relatively new to town, having opened last year. It sells food as well as kitchen items and pottery on the first floor, where the deli side also has seating. Upstairs, an impressive...
State's first Portillo's a huge hit
As if anyone who has driven to Wisconsin's first Portillo's restaurant and seen the wave of cars streaming in and out needed proof, here's some data to confirm just how busy the place has been. The Brookfield Portillo's at 17685 W. Blue Mound Road, which debuted July 19, posted the third-highest opening week sales in the history of the 44-loca...
Altamura, Italian restaurant from Manhattanjack, now open in the Magnolia Mansion
Late last week, crews were still bustling to put the final details on Altamura, located on the first floor of the Magnolia Mansion. The Italian restaurant from Jack Petronella of Manhattanjack debuts Saturday night (Aug. 20). Here are the basic facts on the Lower Garden District's latest fine dining destination: Petronella took inspiration...
The Oddest Houses in Italy: The “Trulli” of Alberobello, Patrimony of Humanity
The oddest-looking buildings in Italy are the arcane "trulli", unique circular dry-stone buildings typical of the region of Puglia, the ancient Apulia. There is nothing like them anywhere in the world. They dot the valley of the Itria river in the Murgia area. These constructions are commonly called "trulli di Alberobello", but they can al...
Piccola Gelateria to open on Freret Street
By Robert Morris Freret Street has gained a reputation as a restaurant row, but the husband-and-wife owners of the forthcoming Piccola Gelateria (4525 Freret St.; www.facebook.com/piccolagelateria) hope to make it a dessert destination with international appeal as well. A native of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ria Turnbull is a hotel...
Italians and longevity: useful tips for research
Tiziana Life Science – a British biotech company – has recently bought a biobank containing DNA samples from 13,000 genealogically linked residents of Ogliastra for €258,000. What sparked the interest of the UK firm was the fact that the small village in Sardinia hosts a proportion of centenarians that is almost 50 times the one in the UK or the US...
Rita’s Italian Ice opening first Mass. location this week
Rita's Italian Ice will open its first Massachusetts location this Thursday at 170 Everett Ave. in Chelsea. The location is also the first Rita's store for Patricia Shelton, of Roxbury, who signed a deal last year to bring 30 Rita's locations to Greater Boston by 2023. Through entity Ice Treats Inc., Shelton plans to expand to Suffolk, Middles...
Eater Scenes: Angelo Brocato, Saturday, 3 p.m.
Beloved New Orleans gelateria and bakery Angelo Brocato (or as many call it— Brocato's) has been operating since 1905, when a young Angelo Brocato, who grew up working in ice cream parlors around Palermo, Italy, opened his first store on Ursulines Street in the Quarter. Two of the shop's bestselling desserts, the torroncino gelato— vanilla with cin...
Pappardelle, formaggi e Gattinara, le cene all’italiana di Donald Trump
di Stefano Zavagli Il menù è sempre lo stesso. Salumi e formaggi italiani, pappardelle mozzarella e pomodoro, ossobuco alla milanese. Per concludere un tiramisù. La cena della domenica in famiglia del nuovo presidente degli Stati Uniti è sulla Quinta Strada, a tre isolati dalla Trump Tower, chez ''Alfredo 100''. Elegante ristorante italian...
Turin, five reasons why it’s not only an industrial city
Turin used to be ignored by the international tourists who chose Italy for their holiday in the past. Often considered only an industrial centre with few points of interest, this city remained out of the usual touristic route Venice-Florence-Rome. Recently, the trend seems to be changing: in 2015, in fact, more than four millions tourists visited t...
Montclair Food Review: Ah’ Pizz
By Tunmise Odufuye Capo d'opera. New Jersey is notorious for a slew of things. We are the "Garden State" with our water being the color green. If you don't know "Bruce," please move to New York. Two New York football teams rented our stadium, but we don't have one for ourselves. "Boardwalk Empire" and "The Sopranos" show us h...