New Jersey Wine School Brings the Italian Wine Scholar Study & Certification Program to Jersey City, NJ, USA
New Jersey Wine School is thrilled to announce the launch of this new wine course and offer you the opportunity to master Italian wines while obtaining a specialized wine certification. The Italian Wine Scholar Study and Certification program provides up-to-date, extensive and precise information on the diverse wines and wine regions of It...
Fundraiser benefits Boys and Girls Clubs of Gloucester County
Former New Jersey Secretary of State Daniel Dalton, who coordinated the launch of the Boys and Girls Club of Glassboro in 2003, was a founding director, and has been a staunch supporter of the county's three locations ever since, will be toasted and roasted by the Boys and Girls Club of Gloucester County (BGCGC) at its largest fund-raising event Oc...
Perriello resurfaces… and wants to be governor
Former congressman Tom Perriello announced his surprise candidacy for governor of Virginia Thursday, upsetting the plans of many leading Virginia Democrats. In a hastily arranged speech at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in downtown Charlottesville, Perriello spoke of how his father first arrived in Virginia. "He...
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...