Alberto Lombardi, Italian pride of the restaurant industry in the USA. The Interview.
Alberto Lombardi was born in Forlì, and he is one of the pioneers of Italian Restaurants in Texas. In 1977 he opened his first restaurant in Dallas and today his company counts more than 14 restaurants in the United States, specifically in Texas, Nevada, Georgia and California, as well as one in Mexico. During his successful career, he ope...
The National Organization of Italian American Women: job opportunity
The National Organization of Italian American Women seeks to fill the following position: Development/Communications Manager Immediate, viagra dosage full time opportunity. Development/Communications Manager for small, growing and exciting not-for- profit organization offering cultural, scholarship, mentoring and networking progra...
From Italy, Found in Translation
By Ralph Gardner Jr. Among the world's most impressive professions—brain surgeon, astronaut, symphony conductor, string theorist, rock star—few rank higher in my personal pantheon than literary translator. Perhaps because I'm terrible at languages. I get winded after a hundred words trying to read a French or Italian newspaper. ...
The Italian(-American) sub, a classic that launched thousands of sandwich shops
The pace of workaday life in America has necessitated relatively short lunch hours and the need for workers to consume food fairly quickly, usually at or near work. Italy's cured meats, stemming from the historical need to preserve scarce resources, have proven ideal for sandwiches, the perfect quick and portable meal. Prosciutto, salami,...
The Real Differences Between The United States And Italy
by Lisa Condie Cruising at 40,000+ feet above the Atlantic Ocean, I feel strangely at peace. Halfway between the two places I call home, I want to hover here for a while. It's the place where I don't feel torn, neither heading towards, nor leaving behind, the places and people I love. I can no longer say which one is home, and where it is...
Jude Law in talks to play pope in Paolo Sorrentino’s TV series
Jude Law is reportedly in advanced talks to play a fictional Italian-American pope in Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s first television venture, "The Young Pope". Sources close to the production have confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that Law is currently in negotiations, but has not confirmed the role. Law would play a hardline...
Indie Artist Michéal Castaldo Tops the Charts on Amazon, Reverbnation, and Artist Signal
Indie artist Michéal Castaldo has hit Number 1 on the Amazon Hot New Releases Chart on May 5, 2015 with the release of his brand new digital single, "Everything Happens for a Reason—Una Ragione." And on May 1, with a running total of over 425K votes, Castaldo reached the Number 1 spot on the Lifetime Chart at ArtistSignal.com, where he has remained...
The American story of Yogi Berra
By George F. Will The 18-year-old US Navy enlistee, thinking it sounded less boring than the dull training he was doing in 1944, volunteered for service on what he thought an officer had called "rocket ships." Actually, they were small, slow, vulnerable boats used as launching pads for rockets to give close-in support for troops assaulting beaches...
The 20 best Italian restaurants in America
"Cucina povera" and "alta cucina" may be apples and oranges (or rather mele e arance), but we Americans adore them just the same—indeed more than any other foreign cuisine, according to recent reports. These 20 best Italian restaurants in America—which stretch from the best restaurants in Miami in the south right up to San Francisco's best...
Chef Rocco DiSpirito Trades Celebrity for Weight Loss Crusade
By Jade Scipioni He shot to fame with his carb-filled Italian-American cuisine and his countless cooking reality shows. Now 12 books later, Celebrity Chef Rocco DiSpirito is on a mission to end obesity. "The mission of my brand is to reverse obesity in America. The problem with food in America is that delicious and healthy don't c...
Portofino Souvenir & A Conversation with Jojo Capece
Jojo Capece is an artist and the author of three books, All Roads Lead to Rome (2011), Bella Figura (2013) and most recently, Portofino Souvenir (2015). Titles like these prompted L'Italo-Americano to interview Capece about her work as an author, sculptress and her Italian roots. We asked Capece to share some details about her background w...
Help the Sons of Italy's Commission for Social Justice Save Columbus Day
Dear friends, our national Columbus Day holiday has been under attack to be renamed "Indigenous People's Day". Most recently we have seen these attempts in Colorado; Utah; Montana; Los Angeles, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Spokane, Washington. The Order Sons of Italy in America is not opposed to a day which recognizes indigenous people...