Pequannock UNICO lends a hand to Riverdale nonprofit
Pequannock UNICO board members Dan Leyva and Keith Capobianco recently presented a $150 check to Stephanie Lajam of the Riverdale-based Push To Walk, a nonprofit that provides physical therapy for those who have suffered spinal cord injuries. UNICO is a service organization that celebrates those with Italian-American heritage, and regularl...
Parks Dept. donates marker honoring first Italian immigrant to Italian American Museum
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation has donated a granite marker honoring Peter Caesar Alberti, the first Italian American immigrant, to the Italian American Museum in New York's Little Italy. The gift arrives in time for June 2nd, which marks the 380th anniversary of Alberti's arrival in the New World. The date is also...
Ward Melville Heritage Organization: Food Network Competitor Joins Fratelli’s Italian Eatery
Fratelli's Italian Eatery in the Stony Brook Village Center is excited to welcome their new Pizza Chef, Food Network Alumni, Francesco Ilardi, to expand their gourmet pizza business. His innovative ideas and gourmet pizza creations have reinvigorated an already appetizing menu at Fratelli's. Francesco, who has over 25 years of experie...
The Italians are coming
by Jeff Alworth In doing research for The Beer Bible, I had to make some very tough decisions about how to use my time and money. There are probably a good dozen countries that deserve to be visited and documented, but I couldn't visit them all. Ireland, out. (An Irish blogger finally convinced me to skip his home country.) Neth...
An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of NY's Irish and Italians
This is an excerpt from the introduction to An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians, a book by former Newsday reporter Paul Moses that is to be released July 7 by NYU Press. On those chilly March days when I walked home with the other boys from Mary Queen of Heaven School in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn in...
Socrates Is Alive and Well in Sicily
by Chris Corbett A few days ago I had the good fortune to be in Sicily, the beautiful island off southern Italy. Whenever I visit Italy I always enjoy La Dolce Vita, and on this visit "the good life" had a special meaning that brought me closer to the land, people and myself. I was attending the "Peace Celebration -- Segesta 2015,...
Italian restaurant to open in East Dundee
Another Italian restaurant will fill the space left by Pasquale's in downtown East Dundee. Dino Mondelli, who operates Dino's Pizza and Pasta in Lake in the Hills, is leasing the site at 310 N. River St., to open LaTavola Ristorante & Pizzeria. Pasquale's Pizzeria & Delicatessen shut its doors last month after about a year in busi...
Member Spotlight: Cassandra Santoro, Founder of Travel Italian Style
We're thrilled to debut our new #MemberSpotlight interview series today! It's quite a pleasure to feature Cassandra Santoro, a young professional member who found NOIAW through social media and attended her first NOIAW event in April (our Italian Women Trailblazers wine tasting.) Cassandra is truly someone who embodies the values of our organizati...
The Italian Way. Addressing the Italian Stereotypes, Myth 8 - The Bread
WTI Magazine #66 2015 August, 21Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: When you ask for the bill at an Italian restaurant, you might raise your eyebrows by seeing an item called "pane e coperto". With this, we indicate the fee related to having eaten at the restaurant and for having had the pre-dinner bread. Yes, the delicious...
America’s first saint helps ease the way for Seattle’s Italian community
by Rita Cipalla In 1903, several national figures made their way to the shores of Puget Sound, no easy feat at the time. In April of that year, John C. Olmstead, stepson of landscape designer Frederick Law Olmstead, arrived to plan out the city's parks and boulevards. In May, President Teddy Roosevelt stopped by on his grand tour of the Am...
New Book - 492 Great Things About Being Italian
492 Great Things About Being Italian (Skyhorse Publishing paperback, also available as an ebook. Available now; ISBN: 978-1-63450-534-5) by Boze Hadleigh is fun, informative and catnip for 17 million Italian-Americans. It follows in the footsteps of other successful books aimed at this minority proud of its remarkable—and ongoing!—heritage. &...
Say ciao to your inner Italian at Festa Italiana
By Madeline McKenzie Italian food, grape stomping, cooking demos and puppy parades are among crowd-pleasers at Festa Italiana Seattle Italian Festival Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 26 and 27, at Seattle Center. If they had you at "Italian food," you're not alone. "Come for the food, stay for the fun" is the festival's motto, with food vendors of...