Italy’s national anthem goes by many names – ‘Il Canto degli Italiani’, ‘Inno di Mameli’, or ‘Fratelli d'Italia’ from the song’s opening line. The lyrics were written in 1847 by 20-year-old student Goffredo Mameli. Two months later they were set to music by Michele Novaro. The song became popular during the time of the Risorgimento in Italy, but af...
Internationally known modern art sculptor and Taos resident Peter Chinni, 90, has died. Chinni reportedly fell Monday evening (Feb. 4) while practicing the first rehearsal of the Taos Community Chorus for a planned spring performance. Members of the chorus said he appeared to strike his head on a pew. Fellow sculptor and chorus member T.J Mabrey s...
Tuesday, February 12. 5:30 - 8:30PM EST. Cocktail Reception to follow the program. Casa ltaliana Zerilli-Marimò NYU, 24 West 12th Street New York NY 10011. Seats are limited, register now! Please RSVP by FRIDAY 2/8 to [email protected] GRUPPO ITALIANO is honored to welcome the event's featured speaker: Eddie Yoon, founder of EddieWould Gr...
Few Italian wines trigger nostalgia in American consumers like Chianti. Many tasted their first sip of tangy Sangiovese from a fiasco, a bottle wrapped in a straw basket, in a red-sauce Italian restaurant. Over the last few decades, Chianti has increased in quality, though most of its top wines fail to titillate palates as seductively as Baroloand ...
You might say that we’re in the middle of the journey of our life: My wife and I reached our 25th wedding anniversary last year. To celebrate, we went to Italy. We put Florence on the itinerary because we wanted to see Brunelleschi’s dome, Leonardo’s paintings, and Michelangelo’s statue of David. But we also had a special reason for traveling to Fl...
The award was presented by C.A.S.IT President Giaconda Motta, Italian Consul Education Officer Professor Adamo Castelnuovo, and Eliot School Principal Traci Walker Griffith. Dr. Giuseppe Giangregorio and his brother, Fernando Giangregorio, own the Green Cross Pharmacy on Hanover Street in the North End. Principal Griffith said the Eliot School is t...
On Monday, February 25, the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Texas will be hosting the 5th annual Taste of Italy trade fair and food and wine festival in Houston, the largest trade fair devoted exclusively to Italian food and wine in the U.S. One of the highlights of this year’s gathering is sure to be the Prosciutto Master Class (see details belo...
Per avere successo la laurea può non servire, ma la preparazione e il merito sono imprescindibili, così come la persistenza e la voglia di imparare: la storia di Valentina Corbetta, 26enne brianzola e imprenditrice a New York, responsabile di 29 dipendenti tra due rami del mondo, ne è la prova. Da Cantù all’America, nel segno dell’innovazione e del...
In this new series we will enjoy several conversations with American writers who will share their experiences of an Italian journey, be it real, imaginary, or metaphorical, but one that is personal and shows their bond with our country. The first encounter is with Michael Frank, whose talk is intriguingly titled "Making friends with Michele, my Ita...
There have been news here and there about geothermal beer in the past. A story is now being picked up by Bloomberg on Vapori di Birra or Steam Beer, a beer created by a retired energy technician of Enel in Lardarello, Italy. Going into retirement he followed up on a passion of his, a beer “produced entirely with steam power”. Starting in 2013, Edo...
Fondata dagli imprenditori Marco Astorri e Guy Cicognani, Bio – on è un’ azienda bolognese nata con un unico grande obiettivo: produrre bioplastiche totalmente biodegradabili. Una sfida importante che cavalca l’impellente necessità di ridurre il dilagante spreco di plastica. I due imprenditori sembrano esserci riusciti grazie alla fermentazione bat...
Parlare di vino italiano negli Stati Uniti vuol dire addentrarsi in un mondo complesso, una storia iniziata tanti decenni fa, che oggi vive probabilmente il suo apogeo, grazie ad un giro d’affari che nei primi 10 mesi del 2018, come ricordano i dati Ice di New York, ha toccato 1,65 miliardi di euro, per una quota di mercato che vale il 31,8% di tut...