Tuscan State of Mind: Bottega Fiorentina’s Andrea Ferrini
by Elise Balzotti Firenze, Florencia, Florence — no matter where you're from, or how you pronounce the name, this Tuscan city is one of the most enchantingly beautiful in all of Italy. Firenze is like a painter's palette, vibrant with color from all the periods of its lengthy history. From cobblestone alleyways shaded by medieval...
Boston Early Music Festival presents The Monteverdi Trilogy
For the June 2015 Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival's undertaking to produce all three of the extant operas of Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) — The Monteverdi Trilogy — with a cohesive artistic and scholarly vision, is a momentous occasion in the modern revival of Baroque opera. Monteverdi was the first great genius in the history of opera...
10 wonderful frescoes to admire in Central Italy
by Claudia Baroncelli With the wonderful Jacopo Juvarra hall in the seventeenth century Palazzina di Caccia Stupinigi (Turin) coming back to new life after restoration and the famous Andrea Mantegna's Bridal Chamber in Castello di San Giorgio (Mantua) reopening to public, Italy is once again one of the best places to admire timeless and ex...
Pasquale Remedio: 'It's a no hard you can do it.'
I would like to pay tribute to my father for strongly influencing my life by instilling in me the principles to seize opportunities and to strive for a better life by hard work and dedication. He was born poor in southern Italy where farming was the main industry. His own father, Joe Remedio, an orphan left his wife and five children to fi...
Fratelli's Italian Restaurant now open in Barboursville
by Paul Sebert Many Tri-State residents were saddened last year when Tascali's Decades Pasta Bar & Grill closed after 29 years when owner Darrell Smith retired. There's now a new Italian option in the village of Barboursville. Fratelli's Italian Restaurant opened it's doors in early June in the former home of Tascali's. "...
10 greatest designs from Pininfarina, the studio that shaped Ferrari
Italian studio Pininfarina designed the twentieth century's greatest Ferraris and through their work with the Prancing Horse -- plus the likes of Fiat, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo -- helped define the emotive Italian style of the mid-century sportscar. On the company's 85th birthday, Paulo Pininfarina, the fourth patriarch of the family to head...
New Takes on Nutella
Across America, chefs are using Nutella, the hazelnut spread created in 1944 in Italy, as the foundation for creative dishes that go beyond breakfast to include savory entrées and gourmet desserts. Chef Lucero Martinez of Pampano Restaurant in New York City grew up in Mexico City. Her family makes 10 different moles back home. Folding...
7 Great Italian Restaurants in Jacksonville
We've scanned Metro Jacksonville's forums for recommendations. Here's seven of the best Italian restaurants that Jacksonville has to offer. If you think we're missing few, let us know and we'll add them to the list! Enza's Italian Restaurant Mike and Enza Huff opened Enza's Italian Restaurant in 2004. Enza had been born in Sicily and migr...
Meet our 2015 Scholarship Winners!
by NOIAW We're thrilled to announce the winners of our 2015 scholarship competition. Since 1990 we have awarded scholarships to young women of Italian descent who have achieved academic success in order to help them realize their dreams of higher education. If you'd like to help future students achieve their dreams, click her...
Wine-tasting event to be held at Bloomfield's Oakeside
The Center for Italian & Italian American Culture announces its kick-off celebration of the Italian Heritage Month: "Vino 2015," a wine-tasting event with wines offered by Gary's Marketplace from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1 at Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center, 240 Belleville Ave., Bloomfield. Tickets for members are $40 per pers...
When the Old Country Becomes the New Country
By Francine Brevetti Why would I want to go to Sicily? My family's from Northern Italy. Three reasons:My education in college and graduate school exposed me to the histories of ancient Greece, and Rome, their drama and their mythologies. I'm crazy about antiquities. Then this past spring I attended two lectures on Italian history by Dr. Douglas K...
Chicago to welcome Italian tango masters
by Lou Carlozo Coming all the way from Italy, by musical way of Argentina, they will soon land in Chicago and show the Windy City how much musical fire can erupt from just an acoustic guitar and violin. Perugia's SatorDuo is headed to the area for a series of at least three concerts near the end of October, "and we're hoping to do fiv...