Italian chef Massimo Bottura will embark on a 6-city book tour across America
Massimo Bottura, head chef of the legendary Osteria Francescana restaurant, ranked #3 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, will embark on a 6-city book tour across America from October 7-16 to promote his first major cookbook: NEVER TRUST A SKINNY ITALIAN CHEF (Phaidon, $59.95, Hardback, Pub Date: October 6). Tucked away on a quiet cob...
A Season in Florida - by Emanuele Pettener
This energetic, well-told short fiction collection from Pettener features six short stories and a novella. "A Pointed Finger," the complex novella, concerns the close and remarkable friendship between Alfredo Crepuscolo, an art history professor in his 30s in South Florida, and Rosa, a 50-year-old divorcé and mother of three who manages a fast food...
Hopman Cup: Espresso helps Serena Williams to victory as USA beat Italy
A cup of coffee rescued Serena Williams as she bounced back from losing her first set of 2015 6-0 to help the USA to a 3-0 Hopman Cup victory over Italy in Perth. Williams was all at sea as she was bagelled in the opening set of her match with Flavia Pennetta, so she ordered an espresso, and that did the trick as she recovered to win 0-6 6...
In America c'è la Lamborghini dei record – di Roberto Zanni
di Roberto Zanni E' una storia che comincia nel 1972, negli Stati Uniti e la racconta Jack Riddell, oggi pensionato, faceva il giornalista tecnico, il quale per 'The Wall Street Journal', ha scritto un breve articolo, che parte, appunto da 43 anni fa. "Era il 1972 ed ero nella U.S. Navy, di stanza a Seal Beach, in California. Non...
Riconoscimento patenti Italia-USA: La Marca (PD) interroga Gentiloni e Lupi
La Farnesina dovrebbe "verificare la disponibilità" degli Stati Uniti "a stipulare un accordo di reciproco riconoscimento della validità delle patenti di guida". È quanto richiesto dalla deputata Pd Francesca La Marca che, insieme a numerosi colleghi di diversi schieramenti, ha presentato una interrogazione in merito ai Ministri degli Esteri e dei...
Italian-American Tasting for 10
You know how hosts love to alternate men and women when planning their seating charts for dinner parties — "boy-girl, boy-girl"? This week, we have an equal number of Italian and American wines to taste, so we will alternate them throughout the tasting. Hopefully, no wine will find the one before or after it terminally boring.We'll st...
Veterans Post Commander Diana Fecarotta
by Lou Carlozo With a great uncle, two uncles and a father serving in World War II, Diana Fecarotta had a tough act to follow. But because of her family's example, Fecarotta went on to distinguish herself in service to her nation: serving in the Marines from 1966 to 1968 and the Air Force Reserve from 1972 to 1975. Yet her contributions a...
Who Was Donatus Buongiorno?
Donatus Buongiorno was a late-19th- and early-20th-century Italian and American artist of Naples and New York. Born in 1865 in Solofra, Avellino, he moved to Naples in the 1800s to attend the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Academy of Fine Arts of Napoli, formerly known as the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Napoli), from which he graduated,...
Is "Raging Bull" a cinematic classic or just another boxing movie?
by Ronan Breathnach While filming The Godfather Part II Robert de Niro began reading the autobiography of an Italian American middleweight boxer from the Bronx. Captivated by the story of Jake LaMotta, de Niro began the long process that would eventually see Raging Bull brought to cinematic life. The first stop was to de Niro's close fr...
A conversation with Francesca Serafini
by Jeannine Guilyard When I first contacted screenwriter Francesca Serafini for an interview, I had no idea the incredible day I would have translating her words. Not only did I appreciate the information in her responses to my questions, but I also appreciated her poetic way of writing them. She has her craft down to a science. I...
Italian Safety Stallion: Maserati Ghibli Aces IIHS Tests
By Bengt Halvorson The 2014 Ghibli is the first Maserati ever to be run through one of the major U.S. crash-test systems. And now in its first set of tests—from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)—it's been named a Top Safety Pick. It's unusual for a couple of reasons. One of them is that models from lower-volume performance...
We Weren’t Always White: anti-italianism essays on a prejudice
This book is a marvelous opus which deserves to be recognized for its innovative approach to the topic of Anti-Italianism. As William J. Connell affirms, "The essays in this volume were written... with the idea of looking very hard at the experiences Italian Americans have had with issues of discrimination and stereotyping." And it does so with a c...