Meet the New Ambassador of Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese
This week, Executive Chef Michele Casadei Massari, the founder of Lucciola Italian Restaurant and Piccolo Café in Manhattan, became the new US Brand Ambassador of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. For the next year, he will share the benefits of cooking, eating, and above all, enjoying this 1,000-year-old hard cheese made from just three simple ingredien...
Giuseppe Garibaldi: The Father & Unifier of His Country
When: October 6th at 7:00 PM EDT - Presented by Toni McKeen. Scroll down to see what we'll cover! Hosted by wiccny About the Webinar Garibaldi was one of the greatest Italian generals. The important battles that he fought with his famous army of Red Shirts, played a major force in the Italian Unification and national independence of Italy. Toni wil...
How Prota Fiori Turns Food Waste Into Italian-Made Footwear
Jennifer Stucko didn’t want Prota Fiori to be the typical made-in-Italy footwear launch. After gaining insight into the world of high-end fashion and footwear by holding positions at brands such as Giorgio Armani, Valentino and A. Testoni, Stucko began to think about fashion’s faulty relationship with sustainability. With pride in her heritage as a...
Opera, travel, food, law: The unlikely friendship of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia
Long before they became federal appeals court judges, Supreme Court justices, travel companions and New Year's Eve celebrants together, Ruth Bader Ginsburg watched Antonin Scalia speak to the American Bar Association. As she would for decades to come, Ginsburg disagreed with Scalia's thesis. But, she recalled in 2014, "he said it in an absolutely c...
Somm TV to Release "Sip Trip, Italy" Series Starting October 1
‘Sip Trip, Italy’ (www.siptripitaly.com), the video road trip through Italy’s best wineries and wine regions, will debut on SOMM TV on October 1st. Sip Trip host and producer, Jeff Porter, and Jason Wise, SOMM TV producer and founder, announced the partnership today. “We love fun and informative video content about wine, and we love Jeff,” said J...
Kick Off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with NIAF & Author Ali Rogin
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 | 12:00 P.M. EST. Registration fee: $25. Register here. Join NIAF and award-winning journalist Ali Rogin to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month! The program will be an engaging discussion around Rogin's new book Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss: 30 Powerful Stories, which brings together an all-star support and recovery team to...
“Federico Fellini: maestro di cinema e di verità” (subtitles in English)
Wednesday, September 30, 5pm EDT. Gianfranco Angelucci: “Federico Fellini: maestro di cinema e di verità” (subtitles in English). Host, Uff. Mico Delianova Licastro. Please click here to register for webinar. Gianfranco Angelucci is a writer, director, Academy teacher, who collaborated with Fellini on the film Interview (1987); it won a Special Ju...
Cake Boss’ Buddy Valastro Badly Injures Hand in ‘Terrible’ Accident
Road to recovery. Buddy Valastro is on the mend after he accidentally impaled his hand while bowling with his family at their New Jersey home. The Cake Boss star, 43, shared a photo on Wednesday, September 23, via Instagram of himself in a hospital bed with a bandaged right arm. “I was involved in a terrible accident a few days ago,” he captioned t...
Nice ice: The history of the Zamboni
Some of the greatest inventions known to man were developed to solve fundamental problems. Some of those would achieve legendary status. The ice resurfacer, in its most basic descriptive name, no matter the manufacturer, is known to most everyone as the Zamboni. Strange name, eh? Consider that the Zamboni was invented and used for a full 10 years b...
Referendum e voto all’estero: in Nord-Centro America il Sì ha ricevuto oltre l’80%
Anche all’estero vince il sì: poco dopo l’una di martedì mattina sono divenuti ufficiali i dati sui voti al referendum sulla riduzione dei parlamenta riscrutinati a Castelnuovo di Porto. A questa tornata ha votato il 23,30% degli aventi diritto (4.537.308); in totale 1.057.211 di italiani all’estero. Il sì stravince – così come in Italia – con il ...
Diversity, Transformation and Italian Studies Hosts Its Inaugural Event
The newly founded Diversity, Transformation and Italian Studies by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and four colleagues in Italian studies (Syndey Conrad, Virginia Commonwealth University; Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto, Auburn University; Marina "Maureen" Melita, Marist College; Vetri Nathan, University of Massachusetts, Boston) is happy to announce its inaugur...
IAP 157: it’s not an Italian bookstore! The rise, fall, and rebirth of America’s favorite Italian American bookstore
As the air begins to chill, and the days grow shorter and shorter, it’s the perfect time of year to snuggle up with a good book— and if you love to read about your Italian American heritage and culture, Nicola Orichuia of Boston’s I AM Books is the man to help you pick the perfect page-turner! I AM Books is Boston’s first—and only—bookstore created...