How Italy Found Its Groove With the Famed Tarantella
What a fascinating story behind this dance! Just think: the famed Tarantella gained its first step from a ritual-like practice that involved escaping the sting of a spider. It gained its name from whence it came — Taranto, Italy — where the wolf spiders (tarantulas) scampered around in droves. The rituals go back to the 1400s, when the afflicted we...
Street-food: 1000 imprese in più in cinque anni (+60%)/ I dati Unioncamere
Negli ultimi cinque anni, un giorno sì e un giorno no, è nata una impresa di street-food, la ristorazione ambulante che sta conquistando sempre nuovi sostenitori. L’esercito del catering su ruote, infatti, è passato dalle 1.717 attività del 2013 alle 2.729 attuali, con un incremento in termini assoluti di oltre mille unità. La fotografia del settor...
Sensi ed emozioni, stimolarli aiuta ad imparare una lingua
Imparare una lingua straniera è un processo lento, impegnativo e difficile. Malgrado ciò, un insegnante creativo che organizza le sue lezioni in modo da coinvolgere gli studenti può rendere l’apprendimento della nuova lingua facile per tutti gli studenti. Il coinvolgimento in classe vale più di molte letture e ripetizioni perché gli studenti impara...
Fantastic Food, Exciting Entertainment and More at Festa Italiana July 20-22
Festa Italiana is excited to combine new selections with old favorites to this year’s festival on Milwaukee’s lakefront July 20-22, celebrating food, family and tradition. To kick off Festa week, organizers are offering a one day, $5 ticket promotion on Monday, July 16. The $5 tickets can be purchased online at www.festaitaliana.com starting at 12:...
Adriatic Cafe & Italian Grill serves Italian fare in Tomball, looks forward to third location
Upon seeing an opportunity to expand business to Tomball, Alban Bulliqi and Ekrem Hyseni opened a second location of Adriatic Cafe & Italian Grill in April 2017 in the Northpointe area. The duo opened their first restaurant in Jersey Village in 2012. “We had a lot of customers and guests that had been coming [to Jersey Village]from Tomball, so we w...
Da Olivetti a Steve Jobs. L’Apple store? Nato nel ’54 dal genio di Adriano
Quando, nel 1954, Adriano Olivetti chiede agli architetti Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Rogers del noto studio B.B.P.R. di progettare un negozio al numero 584 della Fifth Avenue di New York, nel cuore del «blocco dei miliardi», tra la 44esima e la 45esima strada, nessuno può sapere che quel negozio è destinato a diven...
Pecori Fioretti offers sage advice to Loyola grads
When Nicki Pecori Fioretti graduated from Loyola University with an MBA in finance in 1996, she never dreamed she’d be returning in triumph two decades later. But return she did, as the director of community affairs for the Illinois Housing Development Authority, to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2018 at Loyola’s Quinlan School of...
De Cecco brings its organic line to the USA
Italian leading pasta company De Cecco is expanding its products’ portfolio on the United States market, starting with its new organic pasta line. At the Summer Fancy Food Show 2018, Italianfood.net interviewed Stanislao Marrazzo from the company to know more about De Cecco’s strategies: The Summer Fancy Food Show is an opportunity to showcase our...
A History of Venetian Glassmaking
The origins of glassmaking in the area of the Venetian lagoon date very far back in history, with the first reliable reports of activity placing this art form in the 8th century. However, many centuries had to pass before the artisans of the area embarked into what would be the beginning a fully fledged and unique production of decorative glass, ev...
Italian laborers who dug a huge power canal by hand were overseen by brutal ‘bosses’
Creating a canal to go around river rapids was no easy feat in the early days of the Industrial Revolution and at times it could get ugly, as work at Sewalls Falls may have shown. On Aug. 16, 1892, the Concord Evening Monitor ran a story about the digging of the canal, which extends a quarter-mile around the rapids, described the work being done by...
19 Charming Italian Restaurants in Austin
Italian restaurants boast of a prominent spot in Austin’s culinary scene, especially since the number of eateries inspired by the European country have increased recently. Home-made pastas, delicious meats, speciality cheeses, and red sauces are here to stay in the city. Austin’s best Italian restaurants and food trucks range from longtime spots to...
8 Italians studied for 'hypermemory'
An Italian team has studied eight Italians with total recall or 'hypermemory', in the first study in the world of people able to remember what they were wearing or what they had for lunch on a given day 10 years ago. The study was carried out by the Santa Lucia IRCCS Foundation in Rome and published in the PNAS journal. It also involved the Italian...