Museum founder Marianna Gatto
As executive director of the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, Marianna Gatto has made it her life’s work to celebrate L.A.’s rich and largely unknown Italian legacy. Los Angeles is all too well known for its Hollywood heavies, rock stars and thriving Latino culture. But as Marianna Gatto will gladly tell you, Italian roots run rich and deep...
“The Italian Book of Innovation”, il libro italiano della Innovazione presentato a New York
"Diplomatici” dell’innovazione e della tecnologia e sponsor delle start-ups. Quando frequentavano decenni fa i corsi di studio per diventare ambasciatori e consoli, la loro aspirazione era rappresentare l’Italia nelle partite politiche che si giocavano nelle capitali estere e anche, piu’ modestamente, aiutare i connazionali a rinnovare i passaporti...
Indy-based Delco Foods plans expansion into Whitestown, 132 jobs
Indianapolis-based Delco Foods of Indiana is making plans to open a cheese-processing, printing and warehouse facility in Whitestown that will have more than 130 employees. The Italian and specialty foods distributor plans to spend more than $5 million to equip a new, 150,000-square-foot building it will lease at the intersection of Perry Worth Roa...
12/12: La Cantata dei Pastori Neapolitan Xmas show & Benefit
LA CANTATA DEI PASTORI: Neapolitan Christmas Concert. Special benefit performance and concert featuring music, dance, and dinner. Wednesday December 12 from 19:30 to 22:30 EST. Capri Ristorante - 145 Mulberry St, New York 10013 (In the Downstairs Performance Lounge). Please join me, Alessandra Belloni, to help my non profit organization, I Giullari...
Savoring Italy, Slow Food Made With Love
We commenced our trip at the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) with an introduction to Slow Food and traditional Piedmontese food, moved to Turin for the incredible Salon del Gusto, trained to Genoa, and noshed and sipped our way through Liguria, Emilia-Romanga, and Tuscany. Carlo Petrini started the Slow Food movement in Italy in 1986 to...
Italian Diaspora Summer Studies in Rome 2019
Study Italian Diaspora Culture in Rome through a Unique Summer Program. Application Deadline-February 22, 2019. The Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar™ is a three-week summer program that takes place at Roma Tre University from June 17-July 5, 2019. It is designed to introduce participants (doctoral students and professors) to cultural studies...
The most mouthwatering Christmas cakes from around Italy
You may know your panettone from your pandoro, but what about other seasonal treats? Read on for a tour of Italy's regional Christmas cakes. In Milan it’s all about the panettone, literally 'pan de toni' or Toni’s bread. Legend has it that Toni was the kitchen hand at the court of Ludovic Sforza, Duke of Milan. He burnt the cakes for dinner so thre...
Il saluto di Silvia Chiave, nuova Console Generale d'Italia a Los Angeles
E’ con grande piacere che all'inizio del mio mandato come Console Generale a Los Angeles rivolgo un caloroso saluto ai tutti i connazionali, alla comunità italo-americana e a coloro che guardano con attenzione, amicizia e simpatia al nostro Paese. Nell’ambito della vasta area di giurisdizione di questo Consolato Generale, comprensiva della Californ...
L'Italy America Chamber of Commerce ottimista sul 2019
In occasione del Gala annuale della Italy America Chamber of Commerce (IACC), svoltosi il 3 dicembre a New York al Tribeca Rooftop, il suo presidente Alberto Milani ha ribadito la centralità nel sistema Italia dell'organizzazione fondata nella metropoli americana nel 1887 e avente l'obiettivo di rappresentare gli interessi delle aziende che voglion...
St Louis - Bologna Sister Cities Christmas Concert a Tremendous Success
The St Louis - Bologna Sister Cities Organization held its very first Italian Christmas Concert this past Saturday, December 1st starring mezzo-soprano Benedetta Orsi, a native of Bologna, as well as famed soprano Stella Markou and pianist Alla Voskoboynikova. The concert, entitled “CHRISTMAS IN LOVE” was held at Grace United Methodist Church in th...
Gnocchi heaven: Making dumplings the Italian way
"I don’t know anybody on the planet who’s as impassioned about gnocchi as I am,” Christine Hickman laughed ruefully one evening in her well-appointed passive solar kitchen on the north side of Santa Fe. “There’s got to be. But I don’t know who would write a whole cookbook on it.” Hickman was referring to her new culinary tome Gnocchi Solo Gnocch...
Award-Winning Italian Tenor Michéal Castaldo and Friends to Perform “Italian Christmas Concert in Buffalo,” a fundraiser for the Children and Youth of the Alden Community, Dec. 27
“Italian Christmas Concert in Buffalo,” a traditional Italian Christmas concert featuring award-winning Italian tenor Michéal Castaldo and friends, will take place on Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 7:30p.m. at Alden Presbyterian Church, 13298 Broadway, Alden, NY 14004. Castaldo will perform classic Christmas carols from his chart-topping best-selli...