Make & Take Dolci: Frappe Treats for Carnevale
Sunday February 2 2020. 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Mid-City Kitchen, 693 Raymond Avenue, St. Paul 55114. Frappe are rectangles of sweet pastry dough fried and coated with powdered sugar are typical tasty Carnevale treats made throughout Italy and called by various names: chiacchiere, sfrappole, crostoli, bugie, cenci and many more depending on the region....
Life in Italian and English, connecting old and new
Growing up in Wooster Square meant that we didn’t have to experience ethnic or cultural prejudice, and that made life much more comfortable for us all. Just about everyone had the same ethnic background, and things that might have seemed strange to others were ordinary to us. For instance, most of us lived in a bilingual environment. Whether first...
Italian Chefs Featured at St. Michael’s Special School Celebrity Fundraiser
Celebrity Chefs for St. Michael’s School was started in 1978. The event’s original chefs were Gunter Preuss and Goffredo Fraccaro. Goffredo was on stage with Greg Reggio of Zea giving a cooking exposition. Chef Andrea of Andrea’s Restaurant and Capri Blu Bar is part of the next generation of chefs contributing to the great event. Numerous high scho...
IAP 127: at the Italian Tribune
From its humble origins in Newark, New Jersey, for nearly 90 years, the venerable ‘Italian Tribune’ has grown to become perhaps the most important English-language voice in Italian American media. We’ll meet the inspiring couple who has made this multi-generational Italian family business into not just “the Paper of Record for the Italian American...
Musei. Cinquantacinque milioni di visitatori nel 2019, Colosseo, Uffizi e Pompei sul podio
La Top 30 dei musei e dei parchi archeologici statali del 2019 regala conferme e novità, con il podio stabilmente occupato dal Colosseo, con oltre 7,5 milioni di visitatori, in leggero calo rispetto al 2018, le Gallerie degli Uffizi, con quasi 4,4 milioni di ingressi, e Pompei, con circa 4 milioni di presenze, entrambi i siti in ascesa di circa 200...
Italian sandwich shop Uncle Paulie’s hits DTLA today with new sandwiches and a hotel menu takeover
Finally, a place to find a good bacon, egg and cheese in DTLA. Fans of red sauce, Italian delis, and the L.A.-elusive BEC sandwich, rejoice: Uncle Paulie’s opens in Downtown L.A. today. The New York-inspired Italian-American sandwich shop sprouted a second location, where Angelenos and former East Coasters looking for bodega-style breakfast (hello...
Truby Chiaviello, Publisher & Editor, PRIMO Magazine, Appointed to Board of Directors of The Sicilian Project
The Sicilian Project’s mission is to teach English to all children in Sicily. It is with pleasure that PRIMO Magazine announces Publisher and Editor Truby Chiaviello has been appointed to serve on the board of directors of The Sicilian Project. The term of his service began in January 2020. The Sicilian Project is a 501-C3 tax exempt organization t...
Ten underrated towns to visit in Italy in 2020
Whether you're a first-time visitor or long-time resident, there's always more to discover in Italy. Writer John Henderson recommends ten places to add to this year's bucket list. This month I will enter my seventh year in Italy, my ninth over two stints, and not a calendar gets tossed without me discovering new hidden hideaways I’d never heard or...
Caliente Pizza to open restaurant in Green Tree
Caliente Pizza & Draft House will open a new location in Green Tree this spring. Locally owned and operated, the Green Tree spot is Caliente’s sixth since opening in Bloomfield less than eight years ago. The 6,500-square-foot space is near the intersection of Mansfield Avenue and Noblestown Road, not far from the parkway. Locals may know it as the...
‘A House in the Mountains’ tells little-known World War II story of Italian women fighting for freedom
Italy often gets short shrift in popular English-language histories about World War II, with the fighting in the country shrugged off as a sideshow to the Battle of Britain and the invasion of France. Caroline Moorehead takes advantage of this relative gap in the literature with the moving “A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy Fr...
Venice: world's oldest coffee house celebrates 300 years
Venice's Caffè Florian, the world's oldest coffee house, is preparing to celebrate its 300th anniversary in 2020. The landmark Venetian bar, nestled amid the arcades of the central Piazza S. Marco, has been serving locals and visitors to the lagoon city for three centuries. Opened on 29 December 1720, Alla Venezia Trionfante - as it was called orig...
Singing ‘sangwiches?’ Papadom serves Italian and Cuban sandwiches while singing
In an apparent first for the region, you can now eat a sausage sandwich served by an Italian American singing into a headset from his food truck. When Dominic ‘Dom’ Pirozzolo was trying to figure how to make his business stand out in a crowded market, he kept thinking back to an Italian restaurant he used to visit in New York City. “I’ve been singi...