Lady Liberty Personified Hope to a Stalwart Generation of Immigrants
By Cookie Curci The Statue of Liberty stands 151 feet, 1 inch high and weighs 225 tons. The length of her right arm is 42 feet long, her hand 16 feet 5 inches long. Her facial features include a prominent nose that measures 4 feet, 6 inches set between eyes 2 feet 6 inches in width. Standing on her concrete pedestal base, she rise...
Bellini Italian Home per Bellini Modern Living
L'azienda Bellini Modern Living, nata nel 2002 con base a Toronto e volta al mercato canadese, sta continuando la sua espansione negli Stati Uniti, già iniziata nel 2007. Così, dopo due anni di lavori, con l'obiettivo di rispondere ad una domanda sempre più elevata di arredamento stile contemporaneo, è stato dato il via alla nuova divisione Bellin...
The Shining Stone of West Scranton
Two soldiers lay dying. The Italian soldier beseeches Jesus Christ to take his soul to Heaven while the war rages on behind him. To his left, an American soldier prays the same prayer to the Blessed Mother. Brothers in arms, now brothers in marble. Every day for more than 85 years, the sun rises and sets on the faces of these two men, etc...
Parmesan cheese worth its weight in gold? No, really!
By Nina Porzucki Recently, an Italian cheesemaker, Quattro Madonne Caseificio dell'Emilia, announced that it has raised more than $6 million in bonds guaranteed by wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano. Yep, Parmesan cheese. Parmesan has the name recognition. In fact cheesemakers in the European Union outside of a certain region of Ital...
Corona D’Italia Valentines Meeting
Corona D'Italia Lodge #807 held their monthly meeting Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 5 p.m. at Pizza Joe's. The session began with a pizza luncheon hosted by President Clemmy Sirimarco and served by trustee Pudue LaCava, member Jackie Court and sentinel Lois DiFrischia. The business session followed with financial reports presented by treasurer Louise Vitull...
Green Rail, così un gruppo di startupper siciliani ha inventato i binari del futuro
Per i nostri spostamenti presto potremo muoverci – non solo in città – su binari totalmente green. Almeno secondo i ragazzi di Green Rail, startup siciliana già premiata al concorso Edison Start. Il loro motto è: "The future is now, don't miss the train". Non a caso, hanno messo a punto una traversa ferroviaria ecosostenibile, ottenuta in...
Mucci's Italian in St. Paul
Everybody loves good old-fashioned, red lead Italian-American food — in theory, at least. It's the cheese! The pasta! The pizza! The red-and-white-checked tablecloths, the generally clogged parm and hot pepper flake dispensers, the cheap chianti in the straw basket. In short, the comfortable atmosphere that takes you back to your childhood...
I Bedlam di New York arrivano a Roma
Grazie alla collaborazione fra KIT Italia e Kairos Italy Theater, la pluripremiata compagnia newyorkese Bedlam sarà per la prima volta in Italia nel mese di aprile 2016, presentando "Cry Havoc", monologo che parte da celebri monologhi di condottieri shakespeariani per esplorare le difficoltà dei veterani di guerra nel riadattarsi al ritorno nella s...
Piola to bring its pizza back to South Beach — on Washington Ave
Piola, the popular pizza place that lost its lease near Lincoln Road last year, has found a new spot in South Beach. The restaurant has just leased 3,031 square feet at 705 Washington Avenue, and will soon begin building out the space, Irma Figueroa, director of retail leasing and sales for the Comras Company told The Real Deal. Figueroa r...
NOIAW Honors Alisyn Camerota and Jeanne Mariani Sullivan April 16 at the St. Regis New York
The National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW), the only national organization for women of Italian ancestry, celebrated its 35th Anniversary with a Luncheon and Silent Auction at the St. Regis New York on Saturday, April 16, 2016. The event honored two accomplished Italian American women: Alisyn Camerota and Jeanne Mariani Sullivan....
Italian chefs planning to break world record for longest margherita pizza
They're gonna need a bigger stove. In fact, chefs in Naples will use five wood-burning stoves- on-wheels to bake a 1.2-mile pizza this month – the world's longest margherita pie. The current record-holder was a mile-long version of the Neapolitan classic, which was baked last year during Milan's food-themed Expo, The Local reported.&n...
Look: Historic Ballard Houses Become Beautiful Italian Restaurant Today
by Adam H. Callaghan Named for a monastery near Venice, Italian restaurant San Fermo opens its doors today, about half a year later than expected. The wait has produced a gorgeous blend of rusticity and modernity inside and out of the historic Pioneer Houses, which were moved to Ballard years ago from the International District. A...