Uff. Maria T. Fosco Receives Fondazione Dean Martin Award
The Italian American Museum, Its Board Members and President Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa congratulate Uff. Maria T. Fosco on receiving the 2014 Fondazione Dean Martin Award On Thursday, August 7th, the Dean Martin Foundation of Montesilvano (Pescara, Italy) honored Museum Vice President, Maria T. Fosco with...
The Old Country and New Western – A Singing Cowboy’s Tale
When you think of Italians and music, you might just think of the great opera composers, Verdi, Pucchini, Rossini, or the powerful voices of Caruso, Pavarotti or Bartoli. Perhaps your mind fills with the smooth sound of Sinatra and Martin but that is only part of our history. What if I told you Italians also made the best toe tapping, boot scooting...
"Rregione Umbria: Italy's Cuore verde"
SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES Present A Seminar with FOOD TASTING "REGIONE UMBRIA: Italy's CUORE VERDE" - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2014 | 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM Location: S. DILLON RIPLEY CENTER, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW | Washington, DC 20036 Nicknamed the "Green Heart of Italy" because of its lush landscape, warm people...
Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development - Edited by Luisa Del Giudice - Wednesday, October 15 | 7 PM
The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles cordially invite you to the presentation of the book "Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development". Edited by Luisa Del Giudice (NY: Fordham University Press, 2014) it represents a tour de force culmination of the last five years of activity around the extraordinary Watts Towers,...
RHYTHM IS THE CURE: A Healing Dance and Percussion Workshop
Tuesday, November 11th, 6:00 - 9:00 P.M. and Tuesday, November 18th, 6:00 - 9:00 P.M. / Italian American Museum - 155 Mulberry Street (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) - New York, NY 10013 $60 per person - To register for this workshop, please call the Italian American Museum at (212) 965-9000 or&n...
How Ribalta is making their Neopolitan pizza different
Is there room for another Neapolitan pizza maker in Atlanta? Ribalta thinks so. The new pizza joint in Midtown comes from Italians Pasquale Cozzolino, formerly of Dellaroccos in Brooklyn, and Rosario Procino, founder of Keste pizzeria in New York City. Their Neapolitan cuisine stretches beyond pies, and includes handmade pastas and main entrees. &...
Mario Savio: cinquant’anni fa a Berkeley il suo discorso storico che diede il via alla protesta studentesca. Preannunciando il ’68…
di Roberto Bonzio "Arriva un momento in cui il funzionamento della macchina diventa così odioso, ti rende così infelice che non puoi più farne parte, non puoi farne parte nemmeno passivamente. E devi mettere il tuo corpo sugli ingranaggi, sulle ruote, sulle leve, su tutto l'apparato, e devi farla fermare. E devi mostrare alle persone che l...
High-speed trains to seamlessly link Rome airport to Florence and Venice
A new railway link will directly connect Rome airport and the main cities in central and northern Italy. It will take 2 hours and 14 minutes to arrive in Florence and 2 hours 59 to get to Bologna, while a longer ride would be required to Padua (3 hours and 57 minutes) and Venice (4 hours and 12 minutes). The new high-speed routes will star...
Italy to bring private sector into its museums in effort to make a profit
Italy is turning to the private sector to try to increase the profitability of some of its cultural treasures, including the Uffizi gallery in Florence and Borghese gallery in Rome. Under a new initiative sponsored by the government of the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, Italy's cultural centres are likely to begin to look more like other gr...
Mario Amon of Bocconi Restaurant in Hackensack on why presentation is so important
Mario Amon might have been born in South America, but his heart is in Italy — or at least his taste buds. The native of Cuenca, Ecuador, said that Italian food is his "passion," and not only for its flavors; he also appreciates the artisanal aspects, and enjoys decorating dishes so much that he does it even when cooking for himself (it makes him h...
Italian A Day: Robert Mondavi
Robert Mondavi was always convinced that California's wines could compete with the European heavy weights and he set out to prove it. In 1966, Robert Mondavi and his eldest son, R. Michael Mondavi, founded the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley, California. And today, the company has grown to international proportions, having embarked on...
Milan Charter debuts in Washington amid Expo countdown
While the countdown has started with less than 100 days to go before Milan's food-themed Universal Exposition (Expo) opens on May 1, the Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) has presented in Washington the Milan Charter - an Italian initiative for a global food agreement to be illustrated at the trade fair. The first Food Tank Summit on Th...