Why Are There So Many People in Italy Over 100 Years Old?
By Jerry Finzi As my blog article, Italy, Healthiest Country in Europe tells, Italians are already pretty healthy, but there's a lot more to the story... It's been recently reported that there are over 19,000 Italians over 100 years old today still living La Vita Bella. And apparently, Italians are getting healthier, because the number of...
Quando Bologna abolì la schiavitù
Il 3 giugno 1257 Bologna abolì la schiavitù. Nell'Archivio di Stato cittadino è conservato un prezioso codice che anticipa di almeno 600 anni le moderne carte dei diritti umani: si chiama Liber Paradisus, in omaggio alla prima parola del testo del documento, scritto in latino. Il grande capolettera, una "P" ornata di disegni filigranati, prece...
Some See the Verrazano Bridge. Others See a Big Typo
By Emma G. Fitzsimmons The name graces one of New York City's engineering marvels. It stares out from scores of local road signs. It is all but synonymous with a steep toll. And it might have been misspelled all along. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island, was named after an Italian explorer. There is j...
La Puglia protagonista a New York
Con oltre 500 aziende del settore, anche quest'anno l'Italia si conferma grande protagonista del "Summer Fancy Food Show" di New York, una delle manifestazioni fieristiche internazionali più prestigiose del settore Food and Drink. L'evento fieristico americano, giunto alla sua 62esima edizione, si terrà come sempre al Jacob Javits Center...
Estate 2016: crescono i turisti - I dati ENIT
È in crescita nel nostro Paese il turismo organizzato per l'estate 2016. Lo dimostrano i risultati dell'indagine svolta dall'ENIT, condotta su ben 26 mercati e che ha coinvolto oltre 150 tra i principali Tour Operator stranieri, per verificare l'andamento delle vendite del prodotto-Italia in quella che si presenta come una già ben avviata stagione...
Review: Modern on the Rails Brings Italian to a 19th-Century Station
Westchester County has some evocative old train stations, and the 19th-century brick beauty in Mamaroneck is among the loveliest. Unused for travel for years, it opened last October as the setting for Modern on the Rails, a new outpost of the beloved Modern restaurant in New Rochelle. Enter the restaurant and you will immediately feel a se...
Pittsfield UNICO Chapter Awards Scholarships
The Pittsfield Chapter of UNICO held their scholarship awards ceremony at the Italian American Club in June inin conjunction with the Paul J. Capitanio Jr. Memorial Football Scholarship award ceremony. Since 1987 the Pittsfield UNICO chapter has given out over $285,000 in scholarships throughout Berkshire County. The ceremony was the culm...
September 13, Tuesday - Dinner Meeting - Italian American Lawyers of Orange County / Lex Romana
September 13, Tuesday - Dinner Meeting - Italian American Lawyers of Orange County / Lex Romana - 5:30pm-9:30pm. Join IALOC for our annual Bocce Tournament at Il Fornaio in Irvine, California. Appetizers are included in the cost of attendance of $20.00 for members and $30.00 for non-members. The Bocce Tournament will guarantee that you will play at...
You need to try the spinach focaccia at Vace Italian Deli
Vace Italian Deli has rightfully earned a following for its pizza, which flouts standard practice by putting the tomato sauce on top of the cheese. But when I recently wandered into the Cleveland Park location, I decided to forgo the pleasure of the pie and try something new. Let's just say this: The spinach focaccia ($3.50) will put up a...
With Agrodolce, a family delves deeper into Sicily’s cuisine
This month, Angelo D'Alo will open Agrodolce, a Sicilian restaurant in Berkeley. But from the very start, there was little doubt that he would get into the restaurant business. His food career began improbably decades ago as a San Francisco Chronicle paper boy. His mother, Rosa D'Alo, was bored as a housewife in the 1980s and was itching t...
Concert by Italian singer-songwriter pop star Max Gazzè
October 10 - 8pm - Martyr's, 3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago. Singer, songwriter and bassist Max Gazzè's twenty-five year career has seen the artist become a leading statesman of Italian song. Born in Rome and raised in Brussels, where his father served as a diplomat, Gazzè has collaborated with the likes of Franco Battiato and Carm...
Troy Treasures: Italian flavor part of city’s heritage
When I was a young child, I assumed everyone in Troy was Italian. Heck, I thought the whole world was paisan. And why wouldn't I? My two neighborhoods growing up were filled with names that ended in vowels. My life started at 7 Havermans Ave., surrounded by my cousins, the Brunos, Clementes, Pitanellos, Montellos, Sorrentos and Ciccar...