Discovering the new Barilla “fashion pasta”
It was supposed to be a capsule collection of GCDS for the Italian iconic pasta group Barilla. Instead, the project by Giuliano Calza, creative director of the street-wear brand from Milan, has become a video celebrating the “art” of being Italian. The short movie was shot in Hollywood with the extraordinary participation of Sophia Loren, icon and...
Il Mercurio Volante graces museum
The Italian Renaissance came to Terre Haute late in the nineteenth century in the form a statue of Mercury mounted on top of the McKeen Bank building at the corner of Sixth and Wabash. After sitting on the bank for more than eighty years, Mercury was moved to the Vigo County Historical Society Museum in the late 1950s. Today it graces the third flo...
Milano, ecco l'autostrada per le api al Parco Nord „A Milano la strada fiorita più lunga d'Italia con un milione di fiori: ecco 'l'autostrada per le api'
Quando sarà terminata la strada fiorita più lunga d'Italia: 3,5 chilometri costellati da oltre un milione di fiori e 3mila piante perenni. Un corridoio profumato che attraverserà da Nord-Ovest a Sud-Ovest il Parco Nord di Milano e sarà una vera e propria "autostrada per le api". Per il momento è un progetto in divenire (finanziato attraverso una op...
Resurrecting an Italian Christmas culinary tradition
Every time I return from a break in the espresso-stained, red sauce–laden part of New Jersey I call home, I feel uneasy. I just spent a week consuming at least three cloves of garlic a day and beginning all conversations at a 7/10, but as I try to settle back into Baltimore, I wonder if I need to tone it down. Hopkins can feel like something of an...
Italian Language Foundation, The College Board And The Embassy Of Italy Join Forces To Present Professional Development Workshops For Teachers Of AP Italian
The College Board and The Italian Language Foundation, both 501(c)3 organizations, have announced a new partnership that will offer the first of several professional development workshops for teachers of AP Italian on February 1, 2020. This exciting initiative will combine the management and academic support from the College Board, the vigorous adv...
Sperlinga, The Castle Carved Into The Rock
It is one of the most typical and fascinating castles in Sicily. An invincible fortress that still retains its characteristics intact. It was built by digging into the sandstone rock and partly built above it. The Sperlinga castle is unique in its kind, also because of its large dimensions. Inside the castle there are spaces once used as stables, p...
Italian pasta increasingly is made of wheat from Canada and U.S.
Italy, the world's largest pasta consumer, can't abandon the North American wheat used to make spaghetti and macaroni, after smaller plantings and foul weather curbed output in the European Union. Exports of durum wheat by the U.S. and Canada are booming, foiling efforts by Italy to protect its farmers by adopting country-of-origin labelling rules...
Diesel Uses T-Shirts to Promote New Miami Luxury Condos
Diesel is redefining what it means to be a household name. The Italian denim company launched a campaign to mark its newest business venture: Miami real estate. And true to the brand’s history of buzz-worthy advertisements, it’s dabbling in housing with a memorable marketing strategy. Diesel is bucking tradition by promoting the luxury condos thro...
Enter the Castle of Sammezzano and Peer Into Italy’s Otherworldly Past
There was a time when this magical place was going to ruin. Then, a group of volunteers banded together to look after its beauty. Recently, it was put up for sale and bought with an uncertain future…Will the public ever again be able to share in this amazing piece of architecture? Of course, we’re talking about Castello di Sammezzano, the Moorish R...
How to make panforte, Italy’s medieval-era fruitcake with a peppery kick
Christmas in Tuscany would not be complete without a slice of panforte — the peppery, dried fruit and nut-based spice cake born in the central Tuscan hill town of Siena in the Middle Ages — served with a glass of vin santo, a sweet Italian dessert wine. Several legendary origin stories surround panforte. Some culinary historians believe it was insp...
Longtime Mount Carmel pastor Bafaro man of action, conviction in Worcester
Worcester Community Cable Access Executive Director Mauro DePasquale remembers driving down Main Street with the Rev. Michael P. Bafaro more than 20 years ago and noticing the vacant Home Federal Savings Bank. DePasquale told Bafaro, who was president of WCCA’s board of directors at the time, that the former bank building would make a much better h...
An Italian Christmas Kitchen, from North to South I
As you would expect, an Italian Christmas becomes a true Christmas in the kitchen. When I was a child, Christmas was my grandmother’s time to shine (or I should say, to shine even brighter, because the woman was a goddess in the kitchen all year round): she would prepare cappelletti by hand, twisting and turning them one by one, with the skill and...