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By Melissa McCart Over the past few years, more home cooks and restaurant chefs have been making mozzarella from curd, such as chef Matt Porco at Mezzo Downtown and Stephen Felder at Stagioni on the South Side.There's a theater to the process, and it speaks to diners' desire for as-fresh-as-it-gets fare.   But not all mozzarella is equal. A...

Saturday, July 25 | 10 a.m. - noon Join the History Center for a workshop on preserving your Italian heritage through family heirlooms. Enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour and learn best practices for handling and storing paper items and three-dimensional objects with the History Center's Curator of the Italian American Program Melissa E. Marinaro, Reg...

by Nicoletta Marini-Maio   Dickinson College Department of French and Italian invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian. This is a one-year, non tenure-track position in Italian Language, Literature, and Culture, beginning Fall 2016, renewable for a second year upon successful evaluation.   We seek a candidate...

by Enza Antenos   When it comes to Italian professional development, the annual Teaching Italian Symposium-Workshop at Montclair State University is where it's at. On October 23rd, the Coccia Institute and the Italian program of the Department of Spanish and Italian hosted its annual symposium, Imparando giocando, dedicated to games and play...

September 1, 2016 at 3:30PM @ Library of Congress. The Library of Congress European Division & Italian Language Table in partnership with the Embassy of Italy & the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington present: A Conversation about the Novel Un paese di carta between Author Laura Benedetti and Washington Post Reporter Emily La...

Visto il successo dell'iniziativa, la Dante Alighieri ha deciso di estendere agli italiani ovunque residenti "L'Italia a tavola", ricerca che la Dante promuove insieme alla prestigiosa casa editrice "Gambero Rosso". La ricerca, all'inizio destinata ai cittadini residenti in Argentina, Bolivia, Brasile, Cile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perù, Urug...

Nel corso di una cerimonia svoltasi presso l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington, l'Ambasciatore Claudio Bisogniero ha consegnato a James H. Billington, bibliotecario del Congresso, l'onorificenza di Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine del Merito della Repubblica Italiana conferitagli dal Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano.   L'alto ricono...

by David Falchek   Last week, Italian winemaker Giorgio Rivetti spent two days in Scranton officiating at a candlelight winemaker's dinner at the Country Club of Scranton and a presentation for the Electric City Chapter of the American Wine Society.   The opportunity to meet the vintner and experience the wines of his La Spinetta and...

Best known for playing the role of FBI Agent Skip Lipari in HBO's "The Sopranos," Louis Lombardi is going back to his Italian roots by launching his own gourmet Italian food line, Lombardi's.   The line, which will make its debut the first week of September, includes pastas, sauces, olive oils and olives imported directly from Italy.  ...

By Paul Milo The Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders celebrated Italian Heritage Month during earlier this month at the Hall of Records. The event was hosted by District 4 Freeholder Leonard Luciano of West Caldwell and District 5 Freeholder Brendan Gill of Montclair. During the celebration of Italian culture and heritage, the board also hono...

The Center for Italian & Italian-American Culture, 411 Pompton Ave., Suite 5, Cedar Grove, is offering an eight week session in beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, beginning Wednesday, Jan. 22.   All three levels will be offered if there are enough students to fill the classes. The fee for members is $99; for non-members $149. Ti...

If a parking lot full of tattooed men in black leather and boots outside a place called Death Row Motorcycles doesn't intimidate you, the roar of a hundred motorcycles probably will.   No, this isn't the premise of a "Sons of Anarchy" spin-off. It was the scene at the 4-fourth annual UNICO Motorcycle Charity Run, which was held Saturday. &n...