Throwback Travel: Camogli, Italy
by Andrew Nelson Summer, 1939. The sun shines on beachgoers in Camogli, an anchovy-shaped fishing port located on the Italian Riveria just down shore from Genoa. Despite the sky, there's a dark cloud looming over the village's white-sand beaches. On September 1 of that year, Germany's invasion of Poland led Britain and France...
Gli Italiani sulle banconote americane. Scopri chi sono…
Se vi domando: "Chi sono gli italiani rappresentati sulle banconote americane?", probabilmente risponderete in coro "Nessuno", siccome ogni banconota porta con se il ritratto di un presidente, e come ben sappiamo tutti, non c'è mai stato un presidente italiano. Ovviamente per italiano intendiamo di origine italiana perchè secondo la costit...
Italian family roots chronicled
The year was 1915, a year after the Great War started. Michael Salamone's great-grandmother Marie LaMonica left Italy as a child with her family and boarded a ship to get to America. The ship was crowded and infested with pests. When she arrived at Ellis Island, she fell ill with a high fever. Great-Grandma Marie was only a year old at th...
Getting the dough right for 37 years: Italian Bread Shop in Springfield rolls with consumers' changing habits
by Don Treeger People ask Joe Santos all the time for the recipe for the star bread at his Italian Bread Shop. But even if he could give it to you – it's mostly in his head, and he measures flour and sugar by the the scoopful relying on look, feel and experience – yours wouldn't turn out right at home. The dough would never get the ri...
The Poetry of Giovanni Meli
You are cordially invited to attend a special program at the Italian American Museum this Friday evening, September 4th. Professor Gaetano Cipolla will present "The Poetry of Giovanni Meli", volume XIV of the successful series "Pueti d'Arba Sicula/Poets of Arba Sicula." The goal of the series is to present the best poetry written in Sicili...
Chefs Amy Riolo and Luigi Diotaiuti Embark on Culinary Diplomatic Quest to Build Bridges through Global Cuisine
Two of Washington D.C.'s most respected chefs are using their global expertise and connections to better cross cultural relations through food and dining. Recently named "the next big thing" in the culinary world by Elle Spain, award-winning culinary duo Amy Riolo and Luigi Diotaiuti are known for telling the whole story behind food and reclaiming...
OSIA to host 91st annual Columbus Banquet
The Order Sons of Italy in America's Grand Lodge of Illinois and Wisconsin will honor the DiNovo Family of 115 Bourbon Street as Humanitarians of the Year and Army Lt. Col. Robert Ruffolo as Columbus Patriot at their 91st annual Columbus Banquet on Oct. 10 at the White Eagle Banquets in Niles. (708-403-7822) was established 17 years ago by...
Win an Italian Genealogy Research Package!
In celebration of Italian American heritage month, the Sons of Italy® is giving away an Italian genealogy research package valued at $1,500 and donated by My Italian Family. When you join the Sons of Italy® as a new national at-large member, renew your at-large membership, or give the gift of at-large membership via www.osia.org during October...
L’innovazione parte da una rivoluzione culturale
di Andrea Bettini «Think out the box». Non è una frase fatta. Una frase da diario studentesco o da graffito di periferia. È piuttosto una propensione ad affrontare la vita. Di innovazione a parole se ne fa molta, ma poi nell'effettivo quotidiano chi riesce a farla veramente, al fine di migliorare, seppur in minima parte, la vita delle pers...
Chef Walter Martino "Million Dollar Chef"
Chef Walter Martino known as the "Million Dollar Chef" has chosen Miami to launch his first ever restaurant called Kaori by Walter Martino to a restoration project due to open in the heart of Miami at the end of the year that will take place during the international contemporary art fair Art Basel Miami. Kaori is the latest creation by Ita...
COMITES Philadelphia: Berardi fuori dal COMITES
Caos a Philadelphia, dove alla vigilia della seduta in cui verrà votata – il 5 novembre – la mozione di sfiducia contro il presidente Ferrigno, Carmine A. Berardi – indicato nella mozione come suo successore – annuncia oggi "mi hanno buttato fuori dal Comites. Purtroppo non sono piu un consigliere di comites". Come si evince dallo scambio di ema...
No prosciutto panic, please: Italian producers respond to WHO meat alarm
By Isla Binnie The home of Parma ham, trumpeting the benefits of a traditional Mediterranean diet, is urging consumers not to get into a prosciutto panic after a warning that processed meat can cause cancer. Italian food and farming groups responded indignantly to the World Health Organization (WHO) report that put cured meats, such a...