Spaghetti aficionados compete in tasty fun
Enticing aromas filled the air in downtown Independence Saturday as teams competed in the annual spaghetti cookoff. Bad weather during the weekend of the eighth annual Sicilian Heritage Festival had caused the contest to be rescheduled. This time, the sky was sunny and clear with some gusts of wind that at one point blew away the Tangi Touris...
St. Anthony Italian Feast returns to Roselle Park on June 9
The Church of the Assumption's annual St. Anthony Italian Family Feast returns for its 16th year! Once again it will be four days of faith, fun, family and friends, packed full of delicious homemade cooking, an Italian style Café, food venders, a beer & wine garden, non-stop entertainment and music (your favorite performers are returning!), amu...
Marcelli Formaggi — True Artisanal Italian
Top shelf organic farmstead cheese and specialty products from Abruzzo, Italy. The story goes like this: Bob Marcelli and his family made a family trip to Italy to see where his grandparents were from. Everyone wants to know where their family is from, and he just wanted to really understand. 14 family members went on this trip with 42 pieces of l...
New York Italians Inc. has been selected for the Best of Manhattan Award in the Community Organizations category by the Manhattan Award Program!!!
For the second year in a row New York Italians Inc. has been selected for the Best of Manhattan Award in the Community Organizations category by the Manhattan Award Program!!! Please accept our sincere gratitude for your help and continued support during these years! Your daily inquiries let us know how much you care and have brought us al...
Italian People's Bakery a Chambersburg mainstay after 80 years
Pasquale Gervasio made it to America by stowing away on a boat from Italy, eating only lemons for two weeks. In 1936, he opened an Italian bakery in Trenton with a single brick oven, and over the years its grown from one bakery to a seven-location business that create fresh bread and baked goods that are standouts in a community filled with sp...
June 2 Vallejo A&E Source: VOENA Italy-bound for two weeks
It's roughly 6,600 miles from the Bay Area to Siracusa, Italy, which makes for a long plane ride. No problem. Annabelle Marie figured out how to ease the pain for her VOENA children's choir members, who have never made the 11-hour flight. "I'm not going to tell them," she said laughing. Not that most of the Benicia-based choir — invo...
Con Astone, popular Italian singer, dies at 79
by Anthony Rifilato Longtime Long Beach resident Con Astone, a singer and multi-instrumentalist who performed with Elvis Presley, Teddy Randazzo and other popular acts in Las Vegas, died on May 26 after a battle with lung cancer. He was 79. In recent years, Astone was best known for drawing big crowds to Italian Night during the city's Summer...
Al Fancy Food i mille gusti dell’Italia
di Laura Gamberini L'Italia è stata la più grande protagonista dell'edizione estiva del Fancy Food 2016, la più importante fiera del Nord America dedicata allo specialty food, che dal 26 al 28 di giugno ha animato il Javitz Center. Hanno infatti partecipato ben 330 imprese italiane, quasi un terzo dei 1.100 espositori. D'altronde l'Italia è...
Il Ministro Calenda incontra il Segretario Commercio Americano Pritzker
Il Ministro dello Sviluppo Economico Carlo Calenda ha ricevuto oggi il Segretario USA al Commercio Penny Pritzker. Durante l'incontro – riferisce il Mise – sono stati trattati i principali temi nell'ambito delle relazioni economiche e commerciali tra i due Paesi, e dei possibili scenari futuri, anche alla luce del recente esito del referendum in G...
An Italian-Style Gondola Cruise in Newport Harbor
Want an unusual way to cruise Newport Harbor this summer? How about a unique romantic date? Whatever the occasion, one of the best ways to get out on the water is to do it in a gondola. My favorite lady and I recently toured the harbor for her birthday courtesy of Gondola Adventures, and experienced the bay with an Italian flair, as our go...
At 106, woman's upbeat nature inspires residents
Connie Caserta shrugs her shoulders if you ask about reaching 106, just six years younger than the oldest man in the world. "It's me. I just take life as it comes," she said. "People are happy for me." A resident at ManorCare Health Services on Yamato Road, she defies assumptions. On the red carpet the week before at their fashion sho...
Fendi Continues Road-Trip Across the US
Fendi is taking a road trip across the United States in an Ape Piaggio, the iconic three-wheeled Italian truck created in the late 1940s and specially updated for the US trip. The Roman house has transformed the stylish vehicle into a pop-up store that will take some of its most coveted handbags and accessories across North America. The ro...