Illinois Sons of Italy Foundation to grant college scholarships
The Illinois Sons of Italy Foundation recently announced that graduating high school seniors who are full or partially of Italian ancestry are invited to compete for college scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each, to be awarded by the foundation. The scholarships will be awarded to qualified students who will graduate this year from any...
Students get a taste of authentic Italian cooking
Students in Maria Colangelo's French-Italian club got a taste of traditional Italian cuisine Wednesday as professional chefs Tina Autunno and Rosa Rocco visited. The pair taught students how to make spinach and ricotta ravioli in a tangy orange sauce. Autunno, a chef at Piccolo Arancio in Farmington and Rocco, who cooks at Peppercorn's Grill in Ha...
Fabio Viviani's Bar Siena set to open this summer in West Loop
by Peter Frost A less-buttoned-up spinoff of celeb chef Fabio Viviani's Siena Tavern is set to open this summer on Restaurant Row. As previously reported by Crain's, Bar Siena, an 8,000-square-foot, 180-seat Italian restaurant/pizza bar/doughnut shop is working toward a summer opening at the corner of Randolph and Green streets, with...
La lingua italiana piace agli studenti Usa
di Francesco Semprini Quota 2.500, l'Italiano trionfa. Sono oltre 2.500 gli studenti americani che hanno sostenuto l'esame Ap in lingua italiana. Di cosa si tratta? E' «l'Advance placement», ovvero il test che viene sostenuto dagli studenti in Usa per guadagnare crediti formativi extra, e con i quali è possibile impreziosire il proprio cur...
Bella’s opens in Boone
Bella's Italian Restaurant has been under the care of the Simmons family in Banner Elk for nine years this June. After nearly a decade of family-style Italian food, Bella's management made the decision to expand to Boone, a venture the family had always considered. Bella's Boone has been open since March 24, and manager Lisa Carson ha...
Massimiliano Gatti
Massimiliano Gatti's first American exhibition. Gatti's photographs explore the history of the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the immigration from North Africa coasts to Europe, not by reportage, but by a careful, poetic, archeological description that transforms artifacts into metaphor. Read more Source: h...
Eighty-six casts from Pompeii's ruins restored
The restoration of the 86 casts found in 1863 in Pompeii is now completed thanks to the technique developed by Giuseppe Fiorelli. Starting May 27, twenty of them will be displayed at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii for the exhibition "Pompeii and Europe 1748-1943", whose idea was led by architect Francesco Venezia. The restorers were able...
Top 15 inventions you didn’t know were italian
In true Google Doodle style, the 360th birthday of Italian music man Bartolomeo Cristofori, the inventor of the fortepiano, is being celebrated on the homepage of the search engine site. We too, at Swide, are celebrating the inventor's birthday and I am taking a look at the inventions that have become commonplace today and not really given much of...
Coldiretti: pagnotta batte baguette, Italia leader Ue
L'italica pagnotta batte la sofisticata baguette con l'Italia che e' incontrastata leader in Europa con ben cinque pani riconosciuti e tutelati dall'Unione europea. È quanto rende noto la Coldiretti all'Expo dove, al Padiglione Coldiretti, e' stata allestita la piu' ampia rassegna delle specialita' tradizionali delle diverse regioni. La Co...
Lago Maggiore’s Royal Family
by Jessica Andrews When you visit Lago Maggiore, one of the three major lakes in northern Italy, you're visiting the princedom of the Borromeo family. Yes, "princedom". The Borromeo heirs hold the titles of "Prince" and "Princess". How cool is that?! A few weeks ago I took an hour-long train from Milan to Stresa, one of the main t...
Italian Winemakers Talk Natural Wine
Natural wine has evolved from a fringe category imbibed by wine geeks and Williamsburg hipsters to one that has earned a large international following. What is natural wine? Alice Feiring, a leading advocate of natural wines who produces an excellent monthly newsletter offered this definition in a Wall Street Journal article on natura...
Join Me in Supporting the Italian Cultural Institute!
by Mauro Battocchi For many years the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) has been the gateway for Italian culture to San Francisco and the Bay Area. It is the a great meeting place for intellectuals and artists, for professionals working with cultural organizations and events, and for members of the public interested in culture. Pro...