Chef Tim Love tackles Italian in new west Fort Worth restaurant
Fort Worth chef Tim Love has a new restaurant in the works celebrating Italian cuisine. Called Gemelle, it will open in spring 2019 with house-made pastas and a distinct style of pizza that's fairly new to town. The restaurant will open at 4400 White Settlement Rd., in the space previously occupied by Thurber Mingus, which closed in 2016. Love anno...
Restoring the past in Italy
"Is it OK," I asked, "to put my hand here?" "Here" was Jesus' brown hair, on a 700-year-old fresco of the crucifixion, in a cave church in Puglia, Italy. In the fresco, Jesus' eyes were depicted as closed, giving the portrait an oddly serene feel. My task at the moment was to use a scalpel to scrape away calcium deposits on the right eye (a spider...
Unavoidable Hope: Lecture and Book Presentation
Monday, April 8, 2019. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT. Location: Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Hall (upstairs). 1654 State Street, San Diego, California 92101. Reserve your seats here. Back by popular demand is Roger Sabbadini's presentation of the compelling true story of his father - an Italian Jewish refugee, Alessandro (Alex) Sabbadini, who escaped Fasc...
Tragic family mystery solved
Several times in the past, I've written stories about my family when they owned a ranch across the Carson River from Dayton. My great-grandfather Pietro Cassinelli owned and operated the ranch, now known as the Ricci Ranch, from the 1880s until about 1910. These stories included family squabbles, bar fights, Pietro being shot in the back while taki...
Italian Workmen’s Club hosts marinara sauce contest
A contest at the Italian Workmen’s Club in Madison got a little saucy on Sunday. Members took part in a marinara sauce tasting contest. Members of the Italian Workmen’s Club and Italian-American Women’s Club were eligible to enter in the contest. The winner takes home the coveted bragging rights of best tasting sauce in the club. “Yeah it’s bringin...
Italian drinks firm Campari Group has opened a new headquarters for its North American and US business units in New York City
The company announced it would move its headquarters from San Francisco to New York in February last year. The new offices, which overlook Bryant Park, occupy the 18th and 19th floors of the Grace Building in Manhattan. Campari Group hired global architecture and design firm Gensler to design the new office, which has been designed to evoke the gro...
A Violin Maker and His Apprentice Keep a Storied Tradition Alive
He grew up in Chicago. She grew up in Nashville. He’s a lifelong carpenter who’d just as well live in the woods. She’s a former gymnast who fell under the spell of violin while training in ballet classes. It would seem they don’t have that much in common. Except, that is, for the fact that they both want to make violins, and they’re both outsiders...
Tutti a caccia dell'Italia: in aumento il turismo Leisure e Business da States e Canada
Il 51% dei movimenti turistici dagli USA in Italia ha origine dagli Stati della Costa Atlantica e il 23% da quella del Pacifico. Tra le aree metropolitane, il 15% dei flussi proviene da New York. In generale, il mercato statunitense nella nostra Penisola muove 4,1 milioni di turisti per 35,4 milioni di pernottamenti e una spesa di 5 miliardi di eur...
Suffolk County Vocce takes over Indoor Bocce at 89 North in Patchogue
Last week, GreaterPatchogue published a story about a Ping Pong bar that could possibly come to Patchogue. Facebook commenters responded positively for Ping Pong — yet some cried out for a bocce bar in the village. Sal Martinico asked, “How about a bocce ball bar too?” Nat Scaccianoce wrote: “Yes on a bocce bar … “ Well, Patchogue already has a bo...
Lillian Perreca Papa, Italian bakery matriarch, dies at 93
Lilia "Lillian" Papa, daughter of the couple who founded Perreca's Bakery in Schenectady 1914, died Wednesday at the Ballston Lake home of her daughter, Maria. The matriarch of the Jay Street mainstay famed for its coal-fired, brick-oven Italian bread was 93. Born Lilia Perreca to Salvatore and Carmella DeRosa Perreca, Papa started working in her...
Il plotone perduto: la storia di 15 eroi di guerra dimenticati a 75 anni dal loro sacrificio
Il 26 marzo del 1944, settantacinque anni fa, quindici soldati italoamericani furono trucidati dai nazisti ad Ameglia, in Liguria, dopo il fallimento di una missione di sabotaggio. Ragazzi nati da famiglie di migranti, che hanno combattuto e sacrificato la loro vita per la libertà di tutti noi. Quindici giovani eroi dei quali rimanevano appena i no...
All hail Dorothea Wierer: Italy's Biathlon queen
Dorothea Wierer made history. Again. The two-time Olympic bronze medallist became her nation's first ever biathlon overall World Cupwinner. She was the first Italian woman to win a world title clinching gold in the mass start in Ostersund just seven days earlier. Wierer finished Sunday's mass start in Oslo-Holmenkollen, Norway in twelfth position,...