Cooking With Italian Red Wine
Wine has a long, rich history as a cooking liquid. One of the early "cookbooks," compiled in the first century, "De re Coquinaria" ("On Cooking"), included dozens of recipes that used wine. Since the beginning of recorded history, wine has been considered one of the essential ingredients in cooking. The ancient Greeks used wine and there are numero...
E ora pure Bryant Park parla italiano. Grazie ad Antonio Pio Saracino
"Mio caro Antonio, vorremmo da te il nuovo David di Michelangelo". Con queste parole è cominciata la sfida, il disegno per la presentazione di una scultura per il Bryant Park come omaggio da parte del nostro Paese per celebrare l'anno della cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti. A questo invito, ricevuto da parte dell'ambasciata italiana, si è aggiunt...
Italy & USA Best of 2013
Luca Parmitano? La visita del Segretario di Stato John Kerry a Roma? Enrico Letta a Washington? L'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti? Quale immagine è per te il simbolo del legame di amicizia tra Italia e Stati Uniti nel 2013? Vota la tua immagine preferita cliccando su "Mi Piace" e su "Condividi" sotto la foto che ti piace di più....
Italian Wines versus American Wines – What Makes Them Different
My recent vacation in California wine country inspired me to share a few thoughts on the differences between the US wine industry and the Italian wine industry. We discuss this very subject on almost all of our Bike the Wine Roads tours in Italy. My last post, on Bell Vineyards, discussed the different perspectives on terroir, the natural environme...
Italian guitarist joins Wyoming Symphony for performances in Casper, Lander
Italian guitarist Nando di Modugno will join the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra for a Feb. 8 performance that includes both classical and modern compositions. The symphony will perform selections from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" and the first movement of Tchaikovsky's "Serenade for Strings." Then the musicians will accompany di Modugno o...
Nel governo Renzi gli italiani all'estero vogliono contare
By Fucsia FitzGerald Nissoli Carissime/i,mi trovo a scrivervi in un momento delicato per il nostro Paese, in cui, ancora alle prese con la crisi economica, siamo chiamati ad un cambio di Governo la cui crisi ha una matrice extraparlamentare, in sostanza decisa dalla direzione del partito democratico, il partito dell'ex presidente Letta e d...
Maria Gillan Receives AWP's 2014 George Garrett Award
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has been given the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs). Contemporary literature and AWP have benefited from the efforts of many teachers, writers, editors, and administrators who have done their utmost to help the next gene...
Italian scientists announce fourth, changeling neutrino
Scientists on Tuesday announced the discovery of only the fourth recorded transformation of a neutrino from one kind into another. If confirmed, the event – which has so far been a purely theoretical proposition – stands to revolutionize the subatomic particle theory that has been in vogue since it was developed in the latter half of the 2...
Italian power AS Roma to visit Disney again
Italian soccer powerhouse AS Roma is returning to Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando for a week of training and a friendly against Orlando City. Roma will be stateside next month, training at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex from May 22-25, and will play Orlando City on Friday, May 23. Orlando City, currently in the United Soccer...
Italian-American stereotypes still persist in film
The late and great film critic Roger Ebert, a local boy who did good (in both senses), loved Italy, Italian culture and Italian-Americans. He visited the country frequently, admired filmmaker Federico Fellini, and felt a cinematic, Catholic kinship with an American filmmaker of Italian heritage, Martin Scorsese. In 1996, he also praised actor Stanl...
Italian Ambassador Confers High Honor on Georgetown Lawyer
One of Italy's highest honors was bestowed on Georgetown attorney E. David Harrison by Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero in ceremonies at the Italian Embassy on Monday. Harrison was decorated with the title Commendatore of the Order of the Italian Star in recognition for his long-time service providing legal advice to the Italian gover...
Islands High principal headed to Italy
By Jenel Few Danielle Pinkerton spent four years working to build a high school the entire county could be proud of, not just the islands community. Now, she's going to Rome. Pinkerton, who opened Islands High school in 2010, will leave the Savannah-Chatham County public school system on June 30 to become head of an international sch...