Promosso da Wine Advocate, il Soave vola in America
Il Soave sbanca su Wine Advocate, la prestigiosa rivista americana dedicata al vino e riconosciuta a livello mondiale quale punto di riferimento per il settore. Sono infatti ben 43 le referenze di Soave, nelle differenti tipologie, brillantemente recensite dalla testata diretta da Robert Parker. Spiccano tra gli altri i 93 punti per l'azie...
Surf’s Up on Christmas Eve
This may seem odd coming from a Jewish woman from Brooklyn, but I love celebrating Christmas Eve with a feast of the seven fishes. It's a Southern Italian (and now Italian-American) custom in which a grand meal of at least seven different kinds of seafood is served before midnight Mass. The fish part comes from the Catholic practice of abstaining...
Italian tourism out of economic crisis
Foreign tourism boosted Italy's economy in 2013 and 62 percent of international operators worldwide confirmed an increase of travel to Italy during Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, a recent survey from the National Agency of Tourism (ENIT) revealed. The positive trend gives a solid boost to an exhausted economy slowly emerging from t...
Italian Entrepreneurs Build API Hit in San Francisco
Necessity is the mother of all invention. It's been proven time and time again, and for blooming tech company Mashape (mash + shape, pronounced muh-shape), the story is no different. The idea for a mass-market API store was born out of the work three young Italians had been doing for another tech company, in which they sold an "explosion"...
Borsa di studio Fulbright-Roberto Wirth
La Gallaudet University è l'unica università al mondo pienamente accessibile agli studenti sordi, e quest'anno la Fulbright Commission Italy mette a disposizione una borsa di studio per trascorrere un anno accademico in questa università per frequentare corsi di Educazione, Psicologia e Counseling. E' una opportunità unica che la direttrice della C...
Italian gunmaker brings factory jobs to U.S.
Chiappa, an Italian gunmaker known for its exotic firearms, is going to start making them in America. The gun maker already employs 14 people in Ohio and Kentucky who import and sell Chiappa's guns. Now the 56-year old company is building a factory in Dayton, Ohio, and plans to bring it online by the summer. Business has been good for...
Il Mulino New York: Italian-American razzle dazzle in Sunny Isles
by Jodi Mailander Farrell Il Mulino New York is poised to open a second South Florida outpost this spring in South Beach. Can the classic Italian-American restaurant still razzle dazzle? If its Sunny Isles location inside Acqualina Resort & Spa is any indication, some of us are still smitten with its trademark Old World nostalgia...
Italian Traditions: St. Joseph’s Day!
The celebration of St. Joseph's Day, in honor of the Feast Day of the Patron Saint of the Working Person, is a long-standing tradition in the New York State Legislature. St. Joseph's Day is also the day when the swallows are traditionally believed to return to Mission San Juan Capistrano after having flown south for the winter. This year t...
U.S. Pizza Team Competes in Italy
The U.S. Pizza Team (USPT) will be returning to Parma, Italy to compete in the 23rd annual World Pizza Championships April 7th-9th. The team will consist of 16 pizzaiolos from Indiana, Kentucky, California, West Virginia, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas and Massachusetts. The World Pizza Championships bring hundreds...
Anthony V. Riccio's New Oral Histories Collection Illuminates Experiences of Italian American Working Women
In the first half of the twentieth century, Italian American women were born into a life of work. From as young as four or five years old, they were expected to assist in the house or on the farm, leaving school if necessary, to help support the family. The stories of these women, who could keep up with any man, have been mostly provided b...
Presenting Italoamericana: Italian-American Literature in the United States, 1880–1943
Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880–1943, edited by Francesco Durante (Fordham University Press, 2014), brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of writings by Italian immigrants in the United States. Containing work originally published in Italian, this groundbreaking anthology presents long-i...
Lorenzo Thione, founder of the search engine “Bing”
Nowadays we constantly hear of the brain drain, of young people without hope who are forced to leave Italy in search of a fortune they can't find at home. But this is not the case of Lorenzo Thione, native of Como and now living in California. He is 35 and the creator of Bing search engine. Interviewed by Roberto Bonzio, journalist and aut...