Call the Carabinieri! This Lancia Aurelia is an Italian outlaw
Today, Lancia is most commonly known for their outrageous rally monsters from the late 20th century, but this 1954 Lancia Aurelia goes to show that any Lancia from any era has the potential to turn heads. One of only nine Lancia Aurelias restored and modified by Thornley Kelham, this navy blue bullet took over 5,000 hours to complete. As you might...
Easter 2023: 10 ideas for a top holiday in Italy
If you've decided to spend the Easter 2023 holidays in Italy but don't know where to go yet, you'll be spoiled for choice. A mild climate, flowers in bloom, longer days: spring turns the beautiful country into an authentic paradise of colours, scents and beauty. You can discover the countless art treasures preserved in the small villages, or treat...
Restaurant of the Week: Talavera
When entering the Talavera dining room, you don’t see into it as much as you see through it–right to the cotton candy sunsets and cactus-speckled mountain panoramas that await through the expansive window wall. You’ll likely catch a glimpse of the restaurant’s gorgeous patio, too, where diners get a front-row seat to the desertscape, alongside a da...
Italian Govt to Simplify Rules for Working & Residing in Italy for Foreigners
The Italian government has introduced new changes to the law on foreigners working in Italy and obtaining residence permits, in a bid to simplify the rules and make it easier for foreign workers to get employed and move to the country. Through the new amendments, the government has also strengthened the tools to fight illegal migratory flows and cr...
Slow Down: Lessons Learned in Small-Town Italy
“Would you like the nice tomatoes from the farmers or will mine do? They’re just from my garden, they’re not as big,” Chiara, the owner of the small fresh produce store in town, asks me in Italian. “Yours please!” I reply, delighted to be buying casually-organic produce, picked this morning from a garden a few hundred meters from where I stand. We...
Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy. Virtual event
Monday April 3rd, 5:30pm-6:45pm EST. Register here. Attendance Fee: $10. Join NOIAW for a virtual event and discover the history and food of Italian Jews from Benedetta Jasmine Guetta, an Italian food writer and photographer. Born in Milan, Ms. Guetta now lives in Santa Monica, California. In 2009 she cofounded the website Labna, the only Jewish Ko...
The Clever Reason Italians Drink Espresso With Sparkling Mineral Water
Picture this: Turin, Italy, 1884, the year the espresso machine was born. Its creator: Angelo Moriondo, an inventor. A few years pass, and two men become entranced by this glorious creation that brews divine coffee with water and steam. These two men, named Luigi Bezzerra and Desiderio Pavoni, were compelled to make improvements to the machine's de...
Rocco Commisso: How a billionaire businessman runs a soccer club
A billionaire cable TV empire owner does not own a yacht, private jet and mansion on a beach, instead he shelled out $170 million to buy an Italian pro soccer team. Rocco Commisso, 73, bought ACF Fiorentina in Florence three years ago. His wife told him that if he insisted on buying a team, it needed to be somewhere nice. The price tag was also a b...
Cheese: Emilia-Romagna PDOs stand out
In 2022, on the domestic market, rising costs and feed supply difficulties led farmers to slowdown production. According to Ismea data, after two years of strong increases (+4.5% in 2020 and +3.3% in 2021), milk deliveries in the January-July 2022 period have recorded a real setback (+0.1% compared to the same fraction last year). Amid this scenari...
CCI Buffalo hosts St. Joseph's Table
Buffalo's Italian Cultural Center (CCI) hosted its first ever St. Joseph's Table on Saturday. The Italian tradition commemorates a medieval drought and famine where people facing starvation turned to St. Joseph for help. Now people show their appreciation with an altar music and a feast. "I think it's part of our heritage, celebrating St. Joseph's...
I'm an NYU student who studied abroad in Florence my entire freshman year. I loved the campus, the locals, and the chance to travel
After spending my junior and senior years of high school on Zoom calls and in Google classrooms, there was a bright spot at the end of the tunnel: I was accepted into New York University. As a native New Yorker, I was excited to go to a prestigious school close to home. But when the excitement passed, I realized I would be spending my entire freshm...
Meta and Italian Collecting Society SIAE Fail to Renew License Deal
A renewal of the license deal between Meta and the Italian collecting society SIAE has not been reached, as communicated by both parties on March 16. “Safeguarding the rights of songwriters and artists is an absolute priority for us. Therefore, today we will start the procedure to remove the songs of the SIAE catalog from our music library,” said a...