Love, Smoke, and Memory: Italo Svevo’s Diario per la fidanzata
The Center for Italian StudiesThe Italian Division at the University of PennsylvaniaPresent Love, Smoke, and Memory:Italo Svevo's Diario per la fidanzata a Salvatori Lecture byNorman Rusin University of PennsylvaniaWednesday March 13, 2013 at 6pmCherpack, 543 Williams Hall255 S. 36th Street Light refreshments wil...
A Ban on Many Italian Pork Products Will Be Relaxed
The United States Department of Agriculture will relax a decades-long ban on the importation of many Italian cured-pork meat products from some regions of Italy starting May 28, including sought-after staples such as salami. On Friday, the department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services announced that an in-country assessment had determin...
Support Italians & Italians-descents in USA and evereywhere
"Italia I was Born Here "it's an international tour based o the film "18 IUS SOLI" by Italian filmmaker Fred Kuwornu which shows the new generation of Italians born an raised in Italy whose parents are originally African, Asian, Latin American countries. You can support the Change and Italian's heritage month buying this Tee. Thank you in adva...
COLUMBUS DAY! Don’t Miss Sunday’s Parade & Festival
Though the numbers of those of Italian heritage in this city have diminished greatly since the arrival of the first immigrants arrival to this city, Italian pride continues to burn brightly every October as Italian Americans here celebrate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492. This Sunday, Oct. 13, Philadelphia and Delaware...
Nanina's In The Park Owners Named “Stars of Essex County”
Congratulazioni! Belleville restauranteurs were among local Italian Americans honored by County officials this week. Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. hosted the 2013 Essex County Italian-American Heritage Month observance on Monday in the LeRoy F. Smith Public Safety Building. DiVincenzo recognized Nanina's In The Park co-owners V...
Little Nonna's drops some (meat)balls, scores with cannoli
Little Nonna's was barely three nights old when chef and co-owner Marcie Turney - her kitchen crew already digging deep into their "gravy pot" - realized just how deceptive her challenge was. The adorable little storefront space, trimmed with an old-time striped awning and lace curtains, certainly looks manageable enough, the open kitchen...
Ohio Valley Names Italian American of the Year
We're less than a week away from the Annual Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival and Bob Gaudio is one man who has been synonymous with with the festival. He is finally being honored this year as the Ohio Valley's Italian American of the Year. "Having that one spot where you have Italian music, great Italian food, Italian wines, jus...
Italian Heritage Day at Heinz History Center
By Nicky D Cooks Please come and join me on Sunday, October 5th at the Heinz History Center. I will be at the Italian Heritage Day at Heinz History Center with the team members from Ciao Pittsburgh. Please come by and visit us. We will be the ones with some of my fresh made pizzelle on hand to share. Check out the link on Ciao Pittsburgh. ...
Brigantessa adds depth to the city's Italian food scene
In the beginning, Brigantessa was going to be all about pizza. Of course. What new moneymaking restaurant ambition in Philly these days does not begin with a wood-fired oven and a peel-ful of molten mozzarella dreams? And given chef Joe Cicala's stellar track record at Le Virtù, it's worth paying attention to what emerges from the flaming...
Is Jersey-Italian food an endangered species?
by Kelly-Jane Cotter Back in the day, you couldn't drive two blocks in any town in New Jersey without hitting a decent Italian place. Not just pizzerias, but actual Italian restaurants. Family-owned, unpretentious Jersey-Italian restaurants that took pride in recipes handed down from Nonna and Pop. And, yeah, they still exist...
VP Simonetti Honored
On Thursday, May 14th, the Italian American Police Society of New Jersey Financial Vice President Joseph Simonetti was honored by the National Council of Columbia Associations in Civil Service for his professional accomplishments. Vice President Simonetti is a retired Deputy Police Chief from the Belleville Police Department and oversees a...
Garden heritage project documents, preserves Italian traditions
By Deborah Weisberg A double-header of earthly delights is on tap at Wigle Barrelhouse and Whiskey Garden in Spring Garden on Aug. 29 with Italian-theme gastronomic events. The fun begins at 3 p.m. with Fig Fest!, where folks can feast on all kinds of treats made from the fruit of ancient Rome, followed at 7 p.m. by Terra Buona, a five-course...