Ex-Detroit News Reporter's Italian Cookbook Gets A Big Shoutout
by Allan Lengel Domenica Marchetti, a former Detroit News reporter, has made a name for herself with her food writing. Now comes this: Serious Eats -- a highly regarded website that Time magazine once ranked #17 of the 50 Best Websites-- has named Marchetti's book, "The Glorious Vegetables of Italy," one of five essential Italian cook...
We Love Italian Campaign Benefits Lowell High School in SF
The We Love Italian campaign in the Bay Area is raising needed money to bolster Italian language education and Italian AP test taking among schoolchildren. And the work is paying off. Just recently, the Lowell High School in San Francisco received a $7,000 grant from the campaign to replace old textbooks, which were falling apart, with a new text c...
The top six Frank Sinatra items you should consume
By Geoff Edgers I've had some e-mails after our "Why Sinatra Still Matters" piece asking for specific listening recommendations. Easy enough. You really can't go wrong, unless perhaps you pop on the future section of "Trilogy." But let's not restrict ourselves to music. Sinatra was an entertainer who crossed media lines. And his life story...
Italian Hours
by Alec Wilkinson "Countless times I walked past these windows with the curtains drawn," Alessandro Cassin said. "It seemed so unlikely that there would be anything behind them anymore." Cassin is the director of publishing for Centro Primo Levi, which promotes the historical study of Italian Jews. He is from Florence and moved to...
Zita’s Ice Cream and Italian Ice in New Providence Celebrates 15-Year Anniversary
by Michael M. Shapiro For Pete Elefante, owner of Zita's Ice Cream and Italian Ice in New Providence, working at Zita's is a dream job. "Even though Zita's is now 15 years old, I'm only at the beginning...I want Zita's to be one of those places that's around for 50 years, where people who have moved away have to stop by to get their i...
Golf tournament to raise scholarship funds
by Phil Wenzel Eastern Upper Peninsula golf enthusiasts will meet this Saturday near Sault Ste. Marie to raise money that will help some students pay for college. Tanglewood Marsh Golf Course will host the 4th annual Christopher Columbus Italian-American Society Golf Tournament, an event that began when organization members wanted to raise mo...
In the kitchen with Chef Alberto Varetto of Alberto’s on Fifth
by Lauren Daniels Thanks to a childhood aversion to school meals, Alberto Varetto's culinary career got off to an early start. After attending culinary school at age 14, he left his native Italy to work in acclaimed Washington, D.C., kitchens, including Galileo Ristorante. Two decades later, following a move to Southwest Florida t...
2016 Scholarship Handbook
We are pleased to announce the publication of the Calandra Institute's 2016 College Scholarship Handbook. This directory provides information on well over one hundred scholarships available to Italian American students and students of Italian studies. Please be advised that the Calandra Institute does not provide additional scholarship inf...
Michéal Castaldo to Grace the Bandstand Stage for the 92nd Annual Feast of the Three Saints in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Labor Day Weekend
International Italian tenor Michéal Castaldo will perform at the 92 Annual Feast of the Three Saints in Lawrence, Massachusetts, which takes place every Labor Day Weekend. Castaldo will perform on the Bandstand stage at 9:00 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4, which is opening night of this three-day event. The feast is a celebration of the Italian-Ameri...
Italian Consulate Reception
On Tuesday, September 8 the Club will be open for a special reception hosted by the Board of Directors. Elena Sgarbi, the Italian Consul General, will be in Dallas and we will hold a special reception for all of us to meet her, enjoy time with her and say Benvenuto. Along with Counselor Sgarbi will be Vincenzo Acrobelli and Mary Ann Webster, two lo...
Announcing a Major New Italian Educational and Cultural Center in New York
La Scuola d'Italia, the 38-year-old independent, bi-lingual Pre-K through 12 private school, has acquired a building at 432 west 58th Street from the Mount Sinai Health System, to consolidate its two locations enabling the school to expand from 300 to up to 700 students from nursery, pre K through 12 from September 2016. Renovations will i...
The Gaiola Underwater Park: Naples Below Sea Level
The Gaiola Underwater Park, a stone's throw from downtown Naples, is a protected marine area in the city's gulf, right in front of the Posillipo quarter. The coast there is "the most evocative landscape in the area. It is a steep, tuff cliff where natural and artificial caves and nooks open up. The remains of a number of Roman villas have...