Garlic
by Roslyn Torella This month's La Gazzetta focuses on gardening and the first thing that comes to mind when I think back to my family's wonderful vegetable garden is garlic––that amazing aromatic herb. We can trace the use of garlic by humans to over 7,000 years ago in Asia, where garlic grew naturally. It has been used for thousands of y...
Old Vespas Turned Into Modern Office Chairs
If Vespas are the hipsters of the scooter world then these Scooter Chairs are definitely the hipsters of the office-chair world. They might not be ideal for navigating the winding alleys of Florence or Rome but they're perfect for making your colleagues super jealous! Designed by Bel & Bel, a studio workshop in Barcelona founded by artists and...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Italian Studies at The Ohio State University
The Department of French and Italian in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Italian Studies. This is a one-year, non-tenure track appointment with the potential for renewal. Candidates with strong interdisciplinary and mu...
Gei. Il Friendship Award a Genuardi
Il nuovo console generale a New York, Francesco Genuardi, è stato ieri ospite ad una colazione data in suo onore dal Gruppo Esponenti Italiani nella sala privata del ristorante Le Cirque di Manhattan. Il ministro Genuardi è stato accolto dal presidente del Gei, Lucio Caputo, che lo ha presentato ai numerosissimi ospiti presenti, in rappresentanza...
Icon si rafforza in Usa: Adesione al College Board
Il Consorzio ICoN - Italian Culture on the Net è entrato a far parte del College Board, uno degli enti dediti alla promozione dell'istruzione più importanti degli Stati Uniti. L'adesione consentirà ad ICoN - Consorzio composto da 19 università italiane che opera in convenzione con il ministero degli Affari esteri, nato nel 1999 con il patrocinio d...
Ciminnese society honors Vito Cali
Società San Giovanni Bosco SS. Crocifisso di Ciminna held its annual Man of the Year gala on March 6 at Alta Villa Banquets. The society was created in 1960 in honor of a patron saint who had dedicated his life to the betterment and education of children. San Giovanni Bosco, canonized in 1934, received the title "Father and Teacher of Youth." The f...
Italy's many palios: horse racing, jousting and Medieval traditions
In Italy, spring and summer are the seasons of palios and everything that revolves around the fun, folk events that put "comuni" and medieval villages, hamlets and every possible subdivision of a city – "rioni", "contrade", "terzieri", "quartieri", "sestieri" – in playful competition. There are also rides and historical events with flag be...
To the letter! Petition to add second Z to Verrazano bridge
Can't they spell? A Dyker Heights activist is demanding the Metropolitan Transportation Authority tack another Z onto the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge so it matches namesake Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. Every day that the Florentine explorer's misspelled cognome hangs on roadway signs is a travesty, and now its time to do something abo...
Billionaire Italian businessman Leonardo Del Vecchio’s Luxottica behind $73M Fifth Avenue buy
Luxottica U.S. Holding Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of the Italian conglomerate that owns eyewear brands such as Sunglass Hut, Ray-Ban, Oakley and Lenscrafters, has snagged an office and retail building just off Fifth Avenue for $73 million. The building, at 1 West 37th Street last traded for just $25.5 million in 2013 to an Argentinian partnership...
Upcoming Italian Restaurant Le Farfalle Displays Signage
Crews are hustling at Le Farfalle to get the forthcoming Italian restaurant up and running soon at 15 Beaufain St. The door displays the logo, but there's still a lot going into the space right now. Le Farfalle predicted a June opening, but with two more days left in the month, that's highly unlikely. Eater has a feeling Charleston is will...
Manufacturers in Italy’s heartland emerge fewer but stronger from the seven year crisis
by Ilaria Vesentini In the manufacturing triangle between Bologna, Modena and Reggio Emilia where biomedical, ceramic and food excellences intertwine, the long recession has resulted in a healthy natural selection of the market by weeding out the weakest players. Today there are fewer companies in this heartland of the Emilia...
Italian Festival celebrates a way of life in Niagara Falls
It was just five years ago when organizer Carmine Bianco, an elementary school physical education teacher in Niagara Falls, found himself in the unenviable role of Italian Festival rescuer. He jokingly called the 2012 festival on the front lawn of a friend's Pine Avenue restaurant, "The World's Smallest Italian Festival." Fast forward...