Italian Fest shines spotlight on Italian supercars
A unique exhibition about sleek, Italian supercars kicks off this year's Collinsville Italian Fest, according to a press release. The show "Italian Sports Cars: Built For Speed" is open now through Oct. 22, at the Collinsville Memorial Public Library, 408 West Main. The exhibit takes visitors behind the scenes to learn about Ferraris,...
Sea Isle City to Hold 2016 Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival, Oct. 8
Mayor Leonard Desiderio and his family will host Sea Isle City's 2016 Columbus Day Parade Oct. 8, at 2:00 p.m. The annual honoring of Christopher Columbus and all Italian-Americans will begin in front of the Sea Isle City Italian-American Club, located next to the Sea Isle Bridge. The parade will run east along JFK Boulevard to Landis Avenue and th...
Pasta cooking tips from the 70-year legacy of Lombardo's Restaurant in Lancaster
"Back in the day," says Michael Lombardo, "different days meant different jobs." Monday might be wash day; Tuesday was set aside for baking. In the Lombardo household, he says, that tradition extended to food as well. "Growing up, Sundays and Wednesdays" were pasta nights. These days, he's around pasta every day, as co-owner...
Immigrants, ethnic culture can thrive in American unity
My great-grandmother, Rosa Bordoni, arrived from Northern Italy with seven children in tow in 1909. She gave birth to my grandmother, Josephine, on a little farm outside Martinez in 1911. Poverty, prejudice and their traditions led them to form tight family circles. Grandma Jo settled in Crockett. She picked fruit in the Central Valley, to...
The home of the $7 all-you-can-eat pasta supper is at stake as the Sons of Italy sue St. Petersburg lodge
Who knew that inside the nondescript building offering $7 all-you-can-eat pasta suppers a mutiny was brewing? The Grand Lodge of Florida, Order Sons of Italy in America has had enough. The statewide organization has filed a lawsuit against the spaghetti-dinner stalwarts on 34th Street S, the Sons of Italy of St. Petersburg. The disagreemen...
Piero's Italian Cuisine serves up 1,350 Thanksgiving meals to families in need
by Kelsey Thomas Imagine serving more than a thousand turkey dinners in just a few hours. The family that owns Piero's Italian Cuisine did just that to make sure families in need got a Thanksgiving dinner to remember. Volunteers served up more than 300 pounds of turkey and 250 pounds of potatoes. It's all part of a tradition that's be...
Hopes are high for film about Dr. Henry Viscardi
Nicolas Addeo and Peter Lucia, producers, have revealed today that their current project is about Dr. Henry Viscardi, a champion innovator in the struggle for the rehabilitation and rights of severely disabled people. "He was the son of Italian immigrants," says Addeo, "and was born with small twisted stumps for legs. His story is one of self-deter...
A Pasta Empire: Lidia Bastianich's Story
By Jade Scipioni She's a world renowned chef, but her path to the top wasn't always an easy one. Lidia Bastianich, Italian chef, author and restaurateur, thought her career was over in the early '80s when her first restaurant, Felidia, almost never opened. "We invested it all—our whole lives into the restaurant. And we almost didn't open...
Cream of the Crop! Executive Chef Edilerman Molina opens Tosca Americana in Atascocita, Texas
by Russell Lambert Executive Chef Edilerman Molina (Chef Eddie) opened his mouth watering concept of Italian American Cuisine in Atascocita, patient Texas this week. His one of a kind restaurant features Filet Migon; Chicken Scarpariello; Chicken Saltinboca; Salsacci with sundried tomato cream sauce; Broccoli rabe with sausage; Indones...
Italians in America all'Italian American Museum
"Italians In America. Our Contribution": è il film documentario che sarà proiettato all'Italian American Museum domani, 9 agosto. Sin dai tempi del loro arrivo in messo ad Ellis Island, gli emigrati italiani hanno influenzato la cultura americana in vari modi. Il documentario narra i successi degni di nota compiuti dagli italo-americani in diversi...
Michelangelo at The National Gallery
Inaugurating "2013—The Year of Italian Culture" in the United States, the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., will unveil the only presentation in the United States of the "David-Apollo" by Michelangelo, on loan from Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence. The "David-Apollo," last seen in Washington in 1949, will be on public view in th...
Call for Applications – The 2013 NPIHP Nuclear Summer School
Call for Applications – The 2013 NPIHP Nuclear Summer School-In cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, the University of Roma Tre in Rome is hosting a ten-day Summer School in the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation in the last half of June 2013.The course – including travel, accommodations and meals – will be...