How to make panforte, Italy’s medieval-era fruitcake with a peppery kick
Christmas in Tuscany would not be complete without a slice of panforte — the peppery, dried fruit and nut-based spice cake born in the central Tuscan hill town of Siena in the Middle Ages — served with a glass of vin santo, a sweet Italian dessert wine. Several legendary origin stories surround panforte. Some culinary historians believe it was insp...
Longtime Mount Carmel pastor Bafaro man of action, conviction in Worcester
Worcester Community Cable Access Executive Director Mauro DePasquale remembers driving down Main Street with the Rev. Michael P. Bafaro more than 20 years ago and noticing the vacant Home Federal Savings Bank. DePasquale told Bafaro, who was president of WCCA’s board of directors at the time, that the former bank building would make a much better h...
An Italian Christmas Kitchen, from North to South I
As you would expect, an Italian Christmas becomes a true Christmas in the kitchen. When I was a child, Christmas was my grandmother’s time to shine (or I should say, to shine even brighter, because the woman was a goddess in the kitchen all year round): she would prepare cappelletti by hand, twisting and turning them one by one, with the skill and...
Call It a Crime of Pasta
The grandmothers set up shop early. Out of ground-floor kitchens that opened directly onto the street, they came out singing old songs, sweeping the stone floor and scattering their homemade orecchiette, the city’s renowned ear-shaped pasta, on the mesh screens of wooden trays. As the pasta dried in the sun along with the sweatpants, T-shirts and b...
Claudia La Bianca, la siciliana regina della Street art di Miami
A metà tra eroine dei fumetti e dee greche, le donne nell’arte di Claudia La Bianca sono creature contemporanee simbolo dell’emancipazione femminile. Sono loro, giunoniche, sensuali, determinate, a dominare nei murales di Miami durante l’edizione 2019 di Art Basel Miami Beach, la fiera di arte moderna e contemporanea nella città della Florida. Wond...
Il Mito Serves Upscale Yet Unpretentious Italian Meals
When Il Mito first opened on North Avenue in Wauwatosa some 13 years ago, it was the trendiest spot on the block. However, during these intervening years, it’s become something better—a tried and true local favorite for delicious Italian food. The man behind the successful eatery, Chef Michael Feker, has opened other restaurants as well, but Il Mit...
D.C. Fontana, First Female ‘Star Trek’ Writer, Dies at 80
D.C. Fontana, who helped craft the lore of the 1960s television series “Star Trek” and developed one of its signature characters, Spock, as the show’s first female writer, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Burbank, Calif. She was 80. Her husband and only immediate survivor, Dennis Skotak, said the cause was cancer. Ms. Fontana was part of the “Star...
Arrivederci, Little Italy
Toward the end of 1999, I was living in Atlanta when a friend called with an intriguing offer. He’d finally scraped together enough money for a down payment on a place, and the modest one-bedroom apartment he’d been renting, a fourth-floor walkup in an old tenement building in downtown Manhattan, would be available. What really sold me, before I ev...
Candy Canals: Architects Craft Gingerbread Replica Of Venice
Imagine Venice, the city of canals, at Christmastime — twinkling with lights and dressed in garlands. Now translate that into gingerbread and gumdrops. That's exactly what hundreds of architects, designers and engineers came together to do — build the Italian city made up of more than 100 small islands out of Snickers, Mars bars, Jellybeans, cereal...
Nuovi arrivi in sartoria. Ecco la cravatta green di Tiziano Talarico
Sostenibilità e moda vanno a braccetto grazie al giovane imprenditore Tiziano Talarico che con le sue cravatte “Green” trasforma il decluttering in arte. Protagonista delle buone pratiche legate al rispetto ambientale l’imprenditore difende a spada tratta il concetto di sostenibilità. Non si tratta però solo dell’utilizzo di tessuti pregiati natura...
Hidden in the Rubble. Finding our Past in Poggioreale, Sicily
Stereotypes exist in so many forms, and none so comedic as the Italian nose. I remember the moment my elementary school nose began to show off. Minutes turned into months turned into years, and the nose just kept growing. I vividly recall staring in the mirror, confidently trying to find my best angle, only to realize that my nose took center stag...
La promozione del “sistema Italia” a Expo 2020 parte su Tiktok
Il Commissariato italiano per Expo 2020 Dubai sbarca su TIKTOK, la nuova piattaforma social preferita dagli utenti più giovani della rete che amano esprimersi attraverso questo strumento di editing video semplice e immediato. Con l’account “Italy Expo 2020”, il Commissariato italiano svolge un ruolo pionieristico tanto tra i Paesi participant all’E...