San Jose’s Little Italy cooking up a street festival
San Jose's Little Italy district may seem a little bigger when it holds an inaugural street festival this Sunday. The festival will take place on North Almaden Boulevard, which will be closed between Henry's Hi-Life on St. John Street to Paesano Ristorante on Julian Street for the big party. Henry's, Paesano and Bel Bacio coffee will...
D'Arpino's 'spin-off' restaurant coming to Nixa
Steve D'Arpino says he's bringing the family business to Nixa. His parents have run D'Arpino's Italian Cafe in Springfield for more than a decade and Steve D'Arpino said he plans to have his restaurant Piccolo open for business by December. "We're trying to bring some of the great Italian food to Nixa," he said, explaining that the ci...
The Man Behind Illycaffé Says Americans Are Getting Better at Making Coffee
Andrea Illy, chairman of Illycaffé, the world-famous Italian coffee brand founded by his grandfather. How many coffees do you drink a day? Well, I have an average of four per day. Sometimes three, sometimes five, depending on how much I sleep and how my day is. When is the last one, usually? Usually the last is around this t...
Gra’it Grappa Competition to Award 10-Day Trip to Italy to Professional Bartenders and Mixologists
Gra'it, an innovative Italian grappa developed for use in cocktails, has launched The Gra'it Challenge, a five-city competition that will award seven winners a 10-day trip to Italy. This is the first-ever grappa brand to organize a bartending competition of this magnitude. Skilled bartenders and mixologists in the U.S. can submit a recipe for a uni...
Batali cooks up culinary treasures in new book
American chef Mario Batali shares the ingredients to a good book in a 1 p.m. Writers on a New England Stage program Sunday at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St. He will share details from "Mario Batali Big American Cookbook: 250 Favorite Recipes from across the USA," which features tasty recipes from San Diego fish tacos to Boston cream pie....
Sons of Italy Foundation® Scholarship Competition Begins
The Sons of Italy Foundation® (SIF) scholarship competition is underway! In past years, the SIF has offered 10 to 12 merit-based scholarships (National Leadership Grants) annually, ranging from $4,000 to $25,000, in a nationwide competition. These figures and the number of scholarships may vary according to funding this year. U.S. citizens...
Wynwood Gets a Italian Comfort Food Eatery
by Olee Fowler Wynwood is not typically known for having cozy, albeit traditional, restaurants. But that could be changing with the now-open Jack's Home Cooking. The brainchild of JP Parlavechio, who has been in the restaurant industry in South Florida for more than 20 years, alongside Alan Roth, it'll feature a menu based on "what your mother...
Wakefield Sons of Italy supports troops
At their December meeting, look members of the Wakefield Sons of Italy collected a trunk-load of care package items for our troops overseas. Toiletries, site snacks, games and other items were brought to Helping our Troops in Stoneham. Helping our Troops is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting soldiers from Massachusetts. This is a new cause for t...
AICR US Elections Debate with Voter information, October 10th
The American International Club of Rome (AICR) in collaboration with the American University of Rome is pleased to invite you to a 2012 US Elections Debate. With Representatives: Alan Epstein, Democrats Abroad Representative. Marco Elser, Republicans Abroad Representative. Andrew Davis, Moderator, Rome Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News. Debate of the...
The Designs of Mice and Men
The first computer mouse was wooden. Designed by Douglas Engelbart in 1967, the gadget was essentially a wooden block with two wheels on it. Rudimentary to say the least, but the mouse marked a huge step forward in computer user interface. Check it. Guerrino de Luca, the Italian CEO of Logitech, recently let us in on a little secret. The b...
Workshop “Internazionalizzazione e Crescita – AmCham e Simest: l’unione fa la forza”
Lunedì 28 gennaio 2013 si è tenuto il Workshop "Internazionalizzazione e Crescita – AmCham e Simest: l'unione fa la forza" a Salerno alle ore 10.00 e a Napoli alle ore 17.00. L'evento puntava a mettere in luce il ruolo che l'American Chamber of Commerce in Italy può avere nel favorire i rapporti, le relazioni, la creazione di partnership e future c...
USA: 8 marzo, tributo di Boston a Rita Levi Montalcini ''The woman, the scientist"
Giornata internazionale delle donne in memoria di Rita Levi Montalcini - grande scienziata, attivista per i diritti delle donne e premio Nobel per la medicina nel 1986, scomparsa lo scorso dicembre. Succede a Boston, la capitale mondiale della ricerca, dove quest'anno l'8 marzo avra' un significato speciale: rendere un tributo ai meriti scientifici...