Lucrezia focuses on quality Italian dishes
by Heather Augustyn With two locations, in Chesterton and Crown Point, Lucrezia houses some of the region's most authentic and fresh Italian food, including cavatappi pasta, corkscrews that individually hold a rich, Parmesan, buttery cream sauce, surrounded by generous amounts of Portobello mushrooms, lightly caramelized shallots, and plum...
The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles is pleased to announce a generous gift from the Carole and Sebastiano Sterpa Foundation
The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles is pleased to announce a generous gift from the Carole and Sebastiano Sterpa Foundation. Carole and Sebastiano have joined the Museum's elite cadre of donors known as the Founding Families. In preparation for the Museum's opening, the IAMLA's Founding Family designation was cre...
Italian land and nature: Ostuni and the Itria Valley
WTI Magazine #67 2015 September, 4Author : italia.it Translation by: With its still expanses of olive trees as far as the eye can see, the Itria Valley is red soil, green groves and vineyards, and white trullo houses under a serene blue sky – essentially, a marvelous chromatic effect that repeats it...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 68
WTI Magazine #68 2015 September, 18Author : Umberto Mucci Translation by: Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 68th issue of our online magazine. "Italian Emotions, the Directors' Dream" is a new wonderful video published by Italia.it and ENIT. Have you ever dreamed of being in the perfect place for emotions? This video describes a few Ita...
125th COLUMBUS DAY PARADE & COMMEMORATION Sunday, October 4, 2015
Join Baltimore's Italian community in the longest-running parade and commemoration in the country to honor Christopher Columbus - in its 125th year! The day-long festivities begin with 9:15 am Mass at Saint Leo's, 10:30 am Wreath Laying Ceremony at Columbus Piazza (President St/Eastern Ave), 11:30 am brunch at Little Italy Lodge (for paid ticket ho...
Join the first Italian Festival in Silicon Valley!
by Daniela Cilia We would like to introduce to you the first Silicon Valley Italian Festival: on January 31st 2016 a series of events that will have as its protagonist Italy, its culture and history will take place at the Jewish Community Center of Palo Alto. The goal is both to promote the Italian culture and offer a window to talents and...
Starbucks in talks to bring brand to Italy
Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O), the world's biggest coffee chain, is in talks with an Italian partner to open branches in Italy, one of the few major markets where it has yet to make an entrance, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Corriere della Sera newspaper reported that the U.S. company was negotiating with Italian businessman An...
Bottega Veneta's Beretta Talks Luxury at Villanova University
As part of Villanova University's "The Difference Italy Makes" conference series, Bottega Veneta chief executive officer Carlo Alberto Beretta led a lecture on "Tradition, Elegance and Craftsmanship: The Timeless Luxury Model of Bottega Veneta" before a packed room of students and academics. The conference, created in conjunction with the Consulate...
Accepting Applications for Student Trips to Italy in 2016
For the 17th consecutive year, the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) will sponsor its Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery program, an educational and cultural initiative that sends Italian American students enrolled in a college or university to Italy each year. This all-expenses-paid trip will take place in June 2016. Th...
Whoa, Mamma: Clearwater deli personality publishes a cookbook
Line your dinner table with an Italian feast of fried calamari, fresh pasta and tiramisu. Nunziata Pisani, better known as Mamma, is sharing culinary secrets with her new cookbook, Cookin with Mamma. The eighth of nine children, Pisani grew up in a small village outside Naples, Italy, called Contursi. She helped her family on a dairy farm with...
Frank Sinatra’s Voice Saved His Life
James Kaplan's Sinatra: The Chairman takes around a thousand pages to get us from his Academy Award for From Here To Eternity in 1954 to his death in 1998. Kaplan's previous volume, Frank: The Voice (2010), used up almost 900 pages to get us from Frank's birth in 1915 to '54. The combined 1900 pages of the two books isn't long by the standards of,...
Ten Italian style Comfort Foods to feed your soul
by Claudia Baroncelli Lets paint a picture: it's the weekend, its cold, dark and wet outside, you're alone, in your comfy pants, binging on Netflix, with absolutely no intention of leaving the house, and you're content. But all that's missing is some delicious comfort food to top off the perfect scenario. And don't lie; I know we'...