Limited-Edition Aprons: help NIAF
Everyone is doing a lot more cooking these days. Look cute while in the kitchen with this one of a kind, limited-edition, embroidered Buon Appetito! apron! BUY NOW Buon Appetito means good appetite not only for our wonderful food but for life. It reminds us of that wonderful Italian spirit even in the face of adversity. Buon Appetito for courage an...
ISDA National Conventions Promise Fraternalism & Family Memories
Dear ISDA members, this is your invitation to join our 2020 biennial conventions, for both the Order and Fraternal Association, which will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio from Aug. 8 to Aug. 12. The Ohio District, under the the leadership of ISDA Vice President Marie Frank, will host the conventions, and the committee has planned an...
'This is really a true love letter to all of you': Lady Gaga shared an emotional Instagram Live message ahead of the 'Together At Home' virtual concert
"One World: Together At Home" is a star-studded charity event with a lineup curated by Lady Gaga. The concert, which is raising money for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and is supported by the World Health Organization and Global Citizen, will be broadcast on Saturday starting at 8 p.m. ET, and also has a digital livestream with pre-show act...
Stay at Home and #OrderItalian campaign
The Embassy of Italy in Washington DC launched the “Stay at home #OrderItalian” campaign on social media in collaboration with the Italian Trade Agency, the diplomatic-consular and Italian Cultural Institutes network in the USA. The campaign consists of a clear and effective message articulated on all the Embassy's social platforms, aimed at promot...
A New Italian Cookbook Made in The Greenwich Village
In a place as vast and gastronomical as New York City, an instant sense of family and comfort is like finding a diamond in the rough. Chef Pietro Mosconi’s two family’s restaurants, Monte’s Trattoria and Villa Mosconi are exactly that. He is the “Nonno” that we all need when we go out to eat, still emerging from his New York City kitchens greeting...
Andrea Bocelli Joins Lady Gaga For Blockbuster One World Concert On April 18
Andrea Bocelli’s “Music for Hope” concert on Easter Sunday from inside the empty Duomo in Milan was a record beaker, the most watched classical livestream ever for YouTube. Bocelli’s performance, which opened with “Panis Angelicus” as images of Milan’s empty streets and panoramas of Bergamo and Brescia, two Italian cities deeply afflicted by the Co...
Joe Satriani on Postponing Tour, Releasing New Album in the COVID-19 Era
Last month, Joe Satriani decided to postpone his European tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was pretty adamant about getting the ball rolling early,” he tells Rolling Stone from his home in San Francisco. “Because it was obvious. Some folks, maybe they were just frightened and didn’t want to see the reality that’s upon us right now.” Amid the c...
Fresh take on Chicken Cacciatore, an Italian American classic
In “Big Flavors From Italian America,” the new cookbook from Cook’s Country magazine, you get a healthy dose of history along with all the great recipes. There are countless cookbooks on Italian cooking, but this one focuses on how the Italian immigrants who settled in our country adapted dishes from their homeland. Tucker Shaw, editor in chief of...
Daily video lessons for all students who are preparing to take the Italian *AP exams
Starting from Wednesday the 25th of March until the 1st of May the College Board is broadcasting daily video lessons for all students who are preparing to take the Italian *AP exams. This is the playlist of the videos, which will be broadcast live and will then be available as recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoGgviqq4844fvUz7G3ob...
Christopher Meloni’s Journey to ‘Law and Order: SVU’ and Back Again: A Look at His Life and Career
At this stage of the game, there is no surprise that Dick Wolf’s massively successful Law & Order continues ever onward and still manages to evolve in new directions — which it’s done since the concept was introduced to viewers 30 years ago. What probably is surprising, though, is that Christopher Meloni, who played Detective Elliot Stabler alongsi...
Netflix’s ‘Pinocchio’ Is A Whole New Outlook On Our Beloved Character, When Will It Air?
Pinocchio has been a favorite Disney character, and there’s no turning away from this! The 1940 animated musical fantasy movie Pinocchio had awakened the music artist in us, one or the other day. We all have spent crying watching him getting lost and a lot of things we relate to. Our parents might have had teased you with the length of the nose if...
Artists Across the Internet Make Tributes to Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, is by all accounts the man of the hour. While facing threats to his safety from rightwing elements, he is also being showered with praise and admiration, sometimes uncomfortably, as he became the most recogniz...