Sicilian Town Tells Outsiders: Take Our Homes. Please.
by Elisabetta Povoledo Looking for a home? One Sicilian town is making an offer that is hard to refuse: It is giving away houses. There is a catch, naturally. The properties in Gangi, a picturesque central town that straddles the Madonie Mountains, are generally dilapidated, some abandoned generations ago. The structure...
Non furono i Fenici ma i sardi i primi a coltivare la vite. Ecco come si è scoperto
di Maria Teresa Manuelli I vitigni più antichi del Mediterraneo occidentale si trovano in Sardegna e appartengono al cultivar della vernaccia e della malvasia. È la recentissima scoperta dell'équipe del Centro per la Conservazione Biodiversità dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari. Sino ad oggi, i dati archeobotanici e storici attribuiv...
John Turturro’s love story with Italy
by Michael Traversa It's easy in Hollywood for an actor to be typecast according to his or her ethnicity. In his long-lasting career, which includes over ninety projects, John Turturro was able to both stay faithful to his Italian roots and avoid playing a specific kind of character. Always interested in learning about his ancestr...
Why You Need To Visit Expo Milano 2015 Before It Closes Forever
by Melissa Kravitz Expo Milano 2015 is the unsung destination of the summer! While plenty of Americans are rolling out towels for beach vacations across the country, skip the Hamptons one weekend and consider Jetsetting across the ocean. Forget rolling out a towel, you can be munching on roti rolls and sushi rolls and vi...
Anella is a classic Italian restaurant in Greenpoint
by Paul Schultz Anella raises a question: When does a classic become a cliché? Or vice versa? It's hard to fault a welcoming neighborhood restaurant simply because the menu is dominated by dishes from years (and even decades) past. Particularly when those plates are executed perfectly and given a fresh spin. Anella opened in...
Il console generale Reeker: "Gli Usa e Milano, un amore lungo 150 anni"
di Stefano Spennati E' in una fresca mattina di estate che vengo accolto nella sede milanese del Consolato degli Stati Uniti d'America, per incontrare il console generale, ambasciatore Philip T. Reeker. «The American Dream» è ancora vivo. Un sogno che ha portato un Paese come gli Usa, appena uscito dalla guerra civile, ad interessarsi del...
Italian Cuisine: Panzerotti
WTI Magazine #67 2015 September, 4Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn Translation by: Panzerotti are so Italian that there is no a real translation into English, like pasta, pizza or focaccia. They are prepared with a dough similar to that of pizza or focaccia and are stuffed with tomato and mozzarella, closed to a half moon shape and...
Italian art: Donato Bramante
WTI Magazine #68 2015 September, 18Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: In common belief, it is thought that Donato Bramante was born in Milan or rather in Lombardy, but the truth is that he was born in 1444 in Fermignano, a small town near Urbino in the Marche region. In fact, the typical education from the center part of Italy,...
Rinnovo CGIE negli USA eletti Mangione e Arcobelli
Si è svolta a Washington sabato scorso l'Assemblea Paese che ha eletto i due consiglieri territoriali che rappresenteranno gli Stati Uniti nel nuovo Cgie. Ad essere eletti sono stati Silvana Mangione, consigliere uscente e vicesegretario per i paesi Anglofoni Extra Ue nel vecchio Consiglio, e Vincenzo Arcobelli, già presidente del Comites di Houst...
Italian Festival Oct. 11 at Kingston T.R. Gallo Park
The Ulster County Italian American Foundation will host its inaugural Italian Festival from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday at T.R. Gallo Park at the foot of Broadway. Admission is free to the rain-or-shine event. Mayor Shayne Gallo will be honored for assisting the new non-profit organization, dedicated to preserving and promoting Italian heritage...
Italian American Experience Conference at St. John’s University
by Louis Gesualdi I am here to announce the formation of a new Italian American scholarly organization entitled the American Italian Socio-historical Association (AISA). The purpose of the organization is to present and disseminate social scientific research on the Italian American experience. Specifically, the social scientific research o...
Have You Admired Have & Meyer, an Italian Cocktail Bar Coming to Williamsburg?
by Ashley Mason Williamsburg's new Have & Meyer is not what you'd expect from a typical Tuscan restaurant. The bar boasts an impressive selection of single malts—a favorite for its Florence-born bar manager Andrea Alessandrini. "We didn't aim to bring the Italian concept here," he says. "We wanted to bring what we like to the table."...