10th Annual Blauvelt Sons of Italy Italian Feast & Carnival Approaches
The Rockland Lodge 2176 of the Sons of Italy will host the 10th Annual Blauvelt Sons of Italy Italian Feast and Carnival at Tappan Masonic Park Fair Grounds September 12 – 15. The popular event draws thousands of people from around the tri-state area during the spectacular four-day celebration of all things Italian and has been recognized as the bi...
The Journey Of A Tomato To Become Italian Treasure
Do you love tomatoes? Consider yourself lucky to be living in an era where the edibles are available in many types, sizes, and colors. Our ancestors thought the plant species was poisonous and didn’t include it into the menu of edibles for many decades. If you think Italians were the first to introduce the world to the species, then you need to lea...
Autumn in Barbagia
Every year Sardinia celebrates the food festival called, “Autumn in Barbagia”. It involves many cities in the heart of the island, whose inhabitants literally open their houses to welcome guests and tourists who’d like to taste local food and wine. Is that paradise? Yes, a kind of. The 2019 edition is ready to get started and it will be running fro...
Italy Booth at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2019
Welcome to a Marketplace Booth review for the 2019 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, taking place in the park from August 29 to November 23, 2019. This review will cover the Italy kiosk located in the Italy pavilion in the World Showcase. This is a one-stop shop for Italian inspired food during the 2019 Epcot International Food & Wine Festi...
A Bright New Gelato Laboratory Churns to Life on a Tony West Hollywood Block
A novel new gelato shop is primed to take over along a busy stretch of West Hollywood soon. It’s called Gelato Festival, and just as the name implies it’s tied in with the decade-old international gelato festival founded in Florence, Italy. Gelato Festival (the event) is a near around the clock, around-the-world party, having launched over 100 even...
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Benedetto, 70 years
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Benedetto, 227 Elm St., will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary with a renewal of vows during the 11 a.m. Mass on Sept. 15 at St. Anthony’s Church, Watertown. Mr. Benedetto, son of Dominick and Jennie Benedetto, and Katherine Scordo, daughter of James and Marianna Scordo, were married on Sept. 17, 1949, at St. Anthony’s...
Marianna Randazzo (Member of the board of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum)
Among the Italians who have been successful thanks to the United States there are undoubtedly the names of Antonio Meucci and Giuseppe Garibaldi. A scientist, the first; a warrior, the second. Nothing further from each other. But few people know that Meucci and Garibaldi not only knew each other, but they shared a house and some adventures together...
Edda Servi Machlin, 93, Champion of Italian Jewish Cuisine, Dies
Edda Servi Machlin, who survived the harrowing World War II years in Italy by hiding out with anti-Fascist partisans, then immigrated to the United States and wrote a definitive cookbook on Italian Jewish food, died on Aug. 16 at her home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. She was 93. Her daughter Gia Machlin said the cause was vascular dementi...
Feast of the Three Saints ends with a bang, and lots of confetti
The 96th annual Feast of the Three Saints culminated on Sunday when statues of the holy martyrs were carried out of Corpus Christi Parish at Holy Rosary Church and were stationed on a large, mobile cart. While the cart — called the vada — paused in front of the church, a marching band played and confetti guns showered the crowd in strips of colored...
Job Opening: Administrative Assistant at the Los Angeles Office of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA)
The Los Angeles Office of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) is seeking 1 full-time Administrative Assistant. The position is temporary (12 months: further 12 a possibility). The general tasks will include mainly organization and legal-administrative activities inherent to existing contractual relationships or to be developed with organizations and ass...
Utopia, Abandoned
In the 1950s, the small town of Ivrea, which is about an hour’s train ride north of Turin, became the site of an unheralded experiment in living and working. Olivetti, a renowned designer and manufacturer of typewriters and accounting machines, decided to provide for its employees through retirement. They were given the opportunity to take classes...
Gail Sacco, fierce advocate for Las Vegas homeless, dies at 63
If there is one word most often used to describe Gail Sacco, it is “fighter.” It was a term she embodied until her death Tuesday after a two-year-plus battle with lung cancer. She was 63. She spent the last weeks of her life doing what she was best known for in Las Vegas: serving the homeless. No longer able to venture out, she had her husband, Jos...