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It's the 25th year for a popular -- and tasty -- fundraiser that helps an organization that helps children. Pasta for CASA is next week. Cortney Shatraw is CASA's program director and Tracie Briggs is the CASA court coordinator. They talked about the event on 7 News THis Morning. Watch the video for their interview.   CASA stands for C...

Tavola restaurant is excited to partner with the Charlottesville Sister City commission on an exchange of culinary talent between two Italian restaurants: Ristorante il Falcone in the sister city of Poggio a Caiano and tavola restaurant in Charlottesville. Each restaurant will send its chef to the other for one week.   From June 6-...

Rita's Italian Ice signs its thirtieth area development agreement for Colorado and Wyoming. Rita's strategic growth plan constitutes area developers to pioneer Rita's icy treats while bringing innovative growth to their expansion plan. Area developers are Rita's enthusiasts and work closely with the franchisor to acquire new franchisees in their te...

by Laura Ingles   They say in America that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Turns out that's pretty universal. "Her love for food started with a love for her husband, because the restaurant owner was her husband," says Caterina Martini, translating for seventh-generation Italian chef Roberta Vivetta Cintelli. "She starte...

River Forest resident Lissa Druss Christman, 48, recently was awarded the Mazzei Award from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans. The award, named for Tuscan physician and American Revolution supporter Filippo Mazzei, recognizes an individual with extraordinary public affairs skills. Christman answered a few questions for the Forest Leave...

It seems like this spring and summer, I've been crushing on the new +39 Restaurant, Market & Cantina, the Italian restaurant that opened across from the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park in April. Maybe it's the Italian accent that makes my heart beat a little faster.   My crush started innocently enough with a night of gelato...

  WTI Magazine #81    2016 July 15Author : Giulia Casati for the Italian School NJ      Translation by:   English and Italian grammar are very different. Anybody that studies Italian can tell that the Italian and English grammar, specifically the verb tenses and the nouns, are completely different. But the most foreign concepts to English speake...

When discussing about virtuous countries for energy efficiency standards, Germany and Japan are often quoted as examples of developed countries that have succeeded in upgrading industrial gear in an environmental-friendly way.   However, the latest International Energy Efficiency Scorecard published by the nonprofit American Council for an E...

by Susan Bloom   Arriving in the U.S. from the town of Monte di Procida just outside of Naples in 1970, Antonio Durazzo started as a longshoreman in Brooklyn. But not for long. He soon moved to Freehold Township, where he opened his own eatery, Attilio's Restaurant & Pizza, in 1972.   The following year he was joined in the b...

Italians believe that life's pleasures are a God-given right. By contrast, in the United States, hard work is nearly synonymous with the pursuit of happiness. Maybe because of the romanticized version of Italy portrayed in films like Under the Tuscan Sun, we Americans tend to imagine Italy as a land, of bountiful, untethered pleasure. Despite two...

Is Sophia Loren to blame for this? First, St. George scored a date with the eternally bella Queen of Italian cinema — even at 81 she's still got it — and now the entire borough's love affair with authentic Italian culture is reignited.   Coincidence? Perhaps. But check out this pair of upcoming events at Mount Loretto and Casa Belvedere...

Being a stranger in a new place can be scary, especially for people who don't speak the language, don't know anyone and don't know where they'll be sleeping that night. Those are the struggles many refugees face, Jennifer Rumler, managing director of the sales leadership minor and also the faculty lead for the Made in Italy Study Abroad progra...