Compressed air tank maker Baglioni looks for acquisitions in the US
Baglioni Pressure Solutions, which is based in San Pietro Mosezzo (Novara) and has factories in France, China and the US, works in the compressed air tank sector. The company sold a 40% stake to a private equity fund for €10 million, and plans to use the money to accelerate its move into new markets. The company, founded in 1968 by Alfredo...
Four Corners: Vace Italian Deli
By Travis Mitchell Located on Cleveland Park's main strip, Vace Italian Deli (3315 Connecticut Avenue NW) is part deli, part pizzeria, and part Italian market. Open since 1976, the small storefront is the ideal spot to grab a slice of pizza or stock up on homemade pasta. There's also a location in Bethesda (4705 Miller Avenue), though this story p...
Ancestry.com turns over a new “leaf”
by Dan Niemiec Last month, we discussed on-line family trees, and some of the pros and cons. The major pro is that when you upload your tree, the on-line sites (familysearch and ancestry) check your tree for matches with other trees already in their web sites. Keep in mind a couple of things when working with these two web sites. Familyse...
Italian-born Alex Liddi leads Northwest Arkansas over Drillers
by Barry Lewis Northwest Arkansas Naturals infielder Alex Liddi has never played for the Tulsa Drillers, but he had a big game against several of his former teammates Sunday afternoon at ONEOK Field. Liddi, the first Italian-born and developed player to reach the majors, went 4-for-6 with two homers and four RBIs to power th...
Rolling in the dough Native Italian teaches easy pasta making skills
By Valerie L. Valdez The first image that comes to Monica Macy's mind when she thinks of her "Nonna," Italian for grandmother, is her hands. "I remember Nonna Maria's hands covered with flour working the dough for making pasta. For her, cooking was showing love," Macy said in her Harker Heights home. As a girl growing up in Novoledo,...
Local pair earns twin crowns at state pageant
Aubry Bozzano and Sofia Console were crowned Miss Illinois United States and Little Miss Illinois United States respectively at a March pageant at the Copernicus Center in Chicago. The daughter of Anthony and Sherry Bozzano, 28-year-old Aubry lives in Chicago and manages integrated marketing campaigns for clients at a downtown ad agency. "...
Call for Paper - Guido Gozzano: Memory and Innovation
The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate the poetry of Guido Gozzano (1883-1916) with an international conference to be held in Philadelphia October 29-30, 2015. Is Gozzano the last poet of the Nineteenth Century or the fist one of the Twentieth Century? The conference deals with this ambivalence. Gozzano unb...
Gambero Rosso publishes its new guide on Italian Street Food
by Claudia Astarita The well-known Gambero Rosso - the world's authority on Italian food, wine and travel, has published its third edition of the Italian "Street Food" guide. Among the great variety of bakeries, food trucks, panini and crepes places, 22 businesses were awarded as "Regional Champions". La Luge (Courmayeur) is one o...
27: The Verdi Documentary Film Project
You are cordially invited to attend a special screening presentation at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, July 9th."27" is the title of a fascinating new documentary film-in-progress that explores the unique opera culture of Parma, Italy and its fierce connection to the 27 works of Giuseppe Verdi. Producer-director August Ventura wi...
An exhibition in Brescia recounts how the people of the Po valley were assimilated into the Roman Empire
by Marco Carminati An exhibition devoted to a path-breaking change in the history of Ancient Italy opened at the Santa Giulia Museums in Brescia: Rome's gradual occupation of the Po valley, where the ancient Italic peoples dwelt. The exhibition "Rome and the people of the Po. Meeting of cultures III-I century BC" tells a story that began...
Italkraft, a Multi-unit Cabinetry Firm, To Open Houston Operation
by Bill Esler Following successful multi-unit cabinetry projects in Florida, cabinetry and architectural woodwork firm Italkraft Mid Altantic Llc is opening a Houston office to supply two projects under construction there. The operation is expected to open in the fall. Raul J. Gutierrez and Alex Xakoustis founded Italkraft, based...
Southern Soul: Fine-dining Italian is dominated by northern fare. Can Bellino make the south rise again?
In the first century of Italian-American cuisine, nothing north of Naples mattered. The vast majority of the Italian immigrants who migrated to this country in the late 1800s and early 1900s came from their motherland's hot and impoverished south, a land of red sauce made from heat-loving San Marzano tomatoes and mozzarella from the milk of indigen...