Automobili Pininfarina Partners with Salt Lake City Motorcars for Expanded Presence in North America
Italian luxury automaker, Automobili Pininfarina, has added Salt Lake City Motorcars to its list of retail partners in North America. The appointment is part of the company’s ongoing global expansion. Salt Lake City Motorcars, led by Dealer Principal Tom Buckley, will provide a highly personalized experience to prospective and current owners of Aut...
Dishing on Italian Film: Futurist Cuisine and Marco Ferreri's Masterpiece
Turin, 1931. A few feet from where Antonio Carpano was said to have invented vermouth nearly 150 years prior, the Taverna del Santopalato — that’s the “Tavern of the Holy Palate” — opened with a braggadocious bang. If we’re to believe the contemporaneous report from Italian daily La Stampa, March 8, 1931 would remain “impressed in the history of t...
Italy’s World-Famous All’Antico Vinaio Sandwich Shop Is Coming To L.A.
You may have seen a TikTok video floating around with hundreds of Angelenos lined down the block for a sandwich—but it wasn’t just any ordinary sandwich. The viral pop-up belonged to Italy’s most famous sandwich shop known as All’Antico Vinaio. The worldwide sought-out restaurant was born in Florence and started by the Mazzanati family in 1991. Aft...
Udine like a local: 7 things to do
They call it the Venice of the mainland for a good reason. More than one. Elegant loggias, palaces inlaid with mullioned windows, beautiful porticoes, water courses crisscrossing the city: every detail seems like a reminder of the long bond that once bound Udine to La Serenissima. Today, this lovely city in Friuli is a centre on a human scale with...
Laura Pausini Announces 24-Hour Marathon Concert Between the U.S. and Europe to Mark 30-Year Career
Singer Laura Pausini is celebrating three decades as Italy’s top female artist, announcing on Feb. 14 that she will embark on a three-stop concert tour between the U.S. and Europe to take place within 24 hours. Pausini will perform ten songs in each city, representing each decade of her career. Pausini’s run will begin at 6 p.m. in New York City’s...
Is Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 the coolest film ever made?
What counts as "cool" exactly? It's not easy to pin down: as a notion, "coolness" is both frustratingly intangible and constantly in flux. In fashion, music and cinema, the genesis of "cool" feels heavily tied to the emergence of popular culture in the 20th Century – from the US jazz scene that first popularised the term, to the fashion world's pos...
Restaurant Osteria Barocca to Open This Spring in Little Italy
The restaurateur behind Little Italy’s Zia Maria and Casa D’Angelo is adding a third eatery to the neighborhood. Iyad Hamsho signed a 12-year lease to open his new restaurant, Osteria Barocca, in 5,000 square feet at 133 Mulberry Street in the spring, according to Tower Brokerage’s Haz Aliessa, who represented Hamsho in the deal. Asking rent was...
Pian delle Betulle, discovering the last paradise
Anyone who wants to spend a day in total relaxation, surrounded by unspoilt nature, surrounded by fresh and clean air and, above all, by absolute silence, should note among its destinations Pian delle Betulle, also known as “last paradise”! His nickname is extremely true and what he foretells corresponds to the reality of the facts since, once you...
Nearly 300-Year-Old Guarneri Violin Could Achieve $10 Million at Auction
A rare, nearly 300-year-old violin that has been in the collection of the late businessman Sau-Wing Lam and exhibited twice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be auctioned at Tarisio next month, with an estimate in excess of US$10 million. The instrument, circa 1731, is one of only about 150 known violins handmade by Italian master...
Culatello di Zibello PDO is getting sweeter
A new product specification for Culatello di Zibello PDO has been published. The new rules update the characteristics of the prized Parma cured meat to the evolution of pig breeds and breeding techniques and allow production with increasingly higher quality standards. With particular reference to salt, the amount of which has been further reduced....
Yum! New Jersey's Most Charming Italian Restaurant is Delicious
As we have often said one of the most popular styles of food in America and around the world is Italian so it's no wonder that we love good "Italian" here in New Jersey. So once again we are highlighting the "best" of Jersey and yes it's among the best in America. Whether you love spaghetti or cannolis, Italian dishes are delish and very popular he...
Margherita Cassano to be first woman to head Italy's Supreme Court
Margherita Cassano has been nominated as president of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation and is set to become the first woman in Italy to hold this position. Cassano, currently the deputy president of the Corte Suprema di Cassazione, was nominated unanimously on Tuesday by the committee of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), the judici...