US Pizza Team Heads to Italy for the World Pizza Championships
The US Pizza Team will head to Parma, Italy, this May to take part in the World Pizza Championships. The World Pizza Championships attracts hundreds of pizzaiolos from more than 30 countries every year. Competitors take part in a range of events. They include: classic pizza, pizza-in-the-pan, pizza-on-the-peel, Neapolitan, gluten-free, piz...
A rich american and his Italian wife are on a mission to save migrants in the Mediterranean
by Matthew Speiser A 131-foot fishing trawler manned by a wealthy American and his family left the shores of Malta on Wednesday to set off into the Mediterranean sea for a six month expedition, CNN reports. Its mission? Rescue migrants making the perilous journey from Africa to Europe. "I love the adventure and challenge of t...
Malocchio (Evil Eye)
by Joseph Francis Michael Moscaritolo ("Growing up Italian") My maternal grandparents Angelina Schiavo-DeFuria Abbatangelo and Francesco Paolo Gambacorta-Abbatangelo were from Ariano Irpino in the Province of Avellino of the Campania Region. They came to this country around 1913 and settled in the Readville section of Boston, MA. ...
From Turin to California, shaping architecture and design through art: Serena Zanello
by Serena Perfetto "Creativity is the way to transform dreams into reality": there is no better quote we could hope to end our conversation with Serena Zanello during the Spring Show at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Young, Italian, woman, entrepreneur, Serena moved to California a few years ago, after she complet...
Studying (in) Italy Festa della Repubblica vs. Independence Day a Study Abroad Student’s Comparison
WTI Magazine #62 2015 June, 12Author : John Cabot University Translation by: Festa della Repubblica is Italy's national holiday, celebrated on June 2nd each year to commemorate the Italian voters' decision to turn Italy into a republic after the fall of fascism in 1946. The holiday was first celebrated in 1948 and June 2nd did not be...
Rome to launch today its official bid for the 2024 Olympic games
by Andrea Marini To understand just what the 2024 Olympic run means for Italy and Rome you've got to consider the games that took place in the Italian capital in far-away 1960. Gold medals were showered on a nation experiencing an all-out economic boom, with GDP that year growing by 5.4% and surging by 8.4% the following year - gr...
Rita Loccisano and the discipline taking over Italy – Now in Chicago!
Rita is the creator of the new culinary discipline VisualFood®, which unities aesthetics and function by transforming food into little works of art without altering the essence, function, or value of the food itself. It has become a huge success in Italy with an evergrowing number of fans. Like in design, the object is not stripped of its...
Italian restaurant opens in downtown Adairsville
Ristorante Mabianni Main Street Station has opened at 106 Public Square in the heart of downtown Adairsville. Gabriel Murguia is the owner of the family-operated business. Murguia, who has lived in the Adairsville area for about five years, said, while attending the Great Locomotive Chase Festival in Adairsville last October, he fell...
Vi svelo com’è arrivato il Barbera in California
di Jennavave Barbero Sono di origine italo-americana, sono nata in California e poi da qualche anno sono tornata a vivere in Italia, a Milano perché non ho mai dimenticato le mie origini. Infatti piu' di 100 anni fa, come mi hanno raccontato in famiglia, i miei bisnonni Giorgio e Amelia Domenica Barbero sono immigrati in California partend...
Ferragosto 2015 Food!!!
Calling all foodies! We invite you to join in on the food-venture awaiting you at Ferragosto. Ballast Point keeps the party "hoppy" with their craft brews while Bencotto (best Italian in San Diego) Cupid's Catering, Buon Appetito, and Queentowns Public House offer their assortment of turkey chili, pizza, Italian sausage sandwiches, stuffed shells a...
Fazoli's selects sites in Macon and Warner Robins for stores
by Linda S. Morris Fazoli's, which announced in March it was coming back to Middle Georgia, has picked two sites for the fast-casual restaurant. C&P Restaurant Co., a franchise group owned by Allen Peake and Mike Chumbley, had signed a six-unit development agreement for Fazoli's in Georgia. Fazoli's is an Italian-American restaura...
Italians 7th most longlived in health
Life expectancy in Italy is increasing and Italians also place 7th in the world for the longest lives without disability, according to a study by the Global Burden of Disease published on the Lancet medical journal. "From 1990 to 2013 life expectation in Italy has increased, but expectancy of life in good health has increased more sl...