National Geographic: “La Puglia é la regione più bella del mondo”
Oltre 800 chilometri di costa divisi tra mar Adriatico e mar Ionio, sabbia finissima e acque cristalline. Inoltre paesaggi naturali affascinanti, borghi antichi ricchi di cultura e, naturalmente, la ricca tradizione gastronomica. Sono alcuni degli aspetti che hanno convinto tre autorevoli "stranieri" – il National Geographic, Lonely Planet e New Yo...
INPS, gli italiani all’estero meritano una Direzione dedicata
di Fuucsia Nissoli Caro Presidente Boeri, sento il dovere di inviare questa lettera aperta che condivido con la Comunità italiana all'estero. In seguito alla soppressione della Direzione centrale Convenzioni Internazionali e Comunitarie dell'INPS, le voglio comunicare il mio dissenso.Seguendo il Suo operato, ho avuto modo di apprezzare g...
Chasing Ennio Morricone: Our family’s race across an ocean and against the clock to see the concert of a lifetime
The Italy Fund. That's what my mother used to call it, the extra money she would sock away — twenty dollars here, fifty there, another hundred under there. It began, I think, in my late elementary school years, the idea that our family would somehow financially be able to swing a four-person trip to the country our family fled at the turn of the ce...
ILOOXS: In Italian Hands Photovoltaic Becomes Beautiful
by Bianca Dellepiane Made in Italy has always been synonymous with luxury, excellence in design and style. A new Italian startup ILOOXS Technologies, leveraging these values, created invisible solar panels that beautifully integrate with any surface from building roofs to automobiles. Three partners with complementary skills founded ILOOXS in Tur...
Nel futuro di Eataly c’è così tanta America che la consideriamo secondo mercato “domestico” dopo l’Italia
Eataly, senza dubbio, è ormai una realtà consolidata in Italia e nel mondo, ma anche un format in continua crescita ed evoluzione: qualcosa bolle sempre in pentola. Cosa c'è nel suo futuro? "Tanta America, tanti Stati Uniti, perché siamo stati accolti così bene dagli americani da riuscire a vendere le nostre eccellenze come in Italia. Ormai abbiamo...
Archaeology in the Mediterranean Region: A Cultural and Economic Challenge for a better future
On October 12, 2016 the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, in collaboration with the Centro di Conservazione Archeologica (CCA) - Rome, are proud to present the conference "Archaeology in the Mediterranean Region: Economic Challenges for a Better Future" by Roberto Nardi and Andreina Costanzi Cobau. The conference is...
Italian producer IMAB group to launch youth bedroom line for U.S. Market
Imab Group, a vertically integrated Italian producer of bedroom furniture, is set to unveil a collection of youth bedroom furnishings for school-age kids in the company's new showroom at this month's High Point Market. It will mark the U.S. debut for the company, which will be showing in space D-1034 of the International Home F...
Finding true flavors of Florence in Salem
Chef Zamir Kociaj, 43, and his brother Andi, 35, own and operate Firenze Trattoria, a tiny three-year-old restaurant in the heart of Salem. The brothers, as charismatic and knowledgeable as Food Network hosts, were boys when their family moved to Florence, the heart of Tuscany, from Tirana, the Albanian capital. Zamir worked his way up in...
Coda di Volpe is a splash of southern-Italian spice on the Southport corridor
By Mike Sula As a food writer, I'm beginning to view the appearance of every new Italian restaurant with existential dread. In terms of word slinging, the battle between steak houses and Italian spots for Chicago restaurant hegemony throughout the last few years has me running low on ammo. While there are fresh things to write and be exci...
ANDREA VITERBI - Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur
When: Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pmWhere: Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021Organized by : IIC - Entrance : Free. Andrew Viterbi in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto. Presentation of Andrew Viterbi's memoir Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrep...
Chef Mario Batali Says Boston Is One Of His Favorite Food Cities
Well-known TV chef and author Mario Batali is showing some love for Boston's restaurant scene. Batali tells USA Today that Boston is one of his favorite food cities in America. According to the newspaper, he likes zipping up to Boston from New York via train for a bite. "Home to the freshest clams on this coast and the most delicious...
Jazz singer-pianist Buddy Greco dead at 90
by Mike Weatherford Buddy Greco, the jazz pianist turned Las Vegas showman who had a presence from the 1950s through the 2000s, died Tuesday. He was 90. Like many performers of his era, Greco's live career sustained him well beyond his best-known hit, a finger-snapping 1960 rendition of "The Lady Is a Tramp," which established his Las...