Giada de Laurentiis’ Divorce Finalized, Chef Ordered to Pay Ex Husband $9,000 in Monthly Child Support
Giada de Laurentiis is now officially divorced from her ex of over 11 years, Todd Thompson. E! News has obtained a copy of the divorce docs, which show that the world-famous chef has been ordered to pay her former husband $ 9,000 dollars in monthly child support. The papers also detail how the exes have divided their assets, including the...
Lidia Bastianich's latest cookbook is a love letter to Italian cooking
By Kristine M. Kierzek Everything in Lidia Bastianich's world comes back to food. It is the defining element and guiding force in her life, from memories of her grandmother in Italy to the family restaurant business she created. For the past 17 years, she's hosted her Emmy award-winning public television programs sharing Italian cooki...
Tony Gemignani, American Pizza Champions to compete in World Pizza Championships
Pizza Maestro and 11-time world champion Tony Gemignani of Tony's Pizza Napoletana will lead The World Pizza Champions, America's No. 1 Pizza Team, to the World Pizza Championship April 11-13 in Parma, Italy. Held each year, the World Pizza Championships determines the world's best pizza makers with more than 20 countries competing and 6,500 indepe...
Alfa Romeo e Maserati: dagli Usa parte la sfida di Bigland
Da poche settimane in casa Alfa Romeo e Maserati, è avvenuto un importante cambio della guardia, l'ex numero uno Harald Wester ha lasciato il posto di numero uno in favore di Reid Bigland, che dunque è diventato il nuovo amministratore delegato dei due importanti brand automobilistici italiani. Il noto manager americano, già da tempo inser...
Italy-based colour cosmetics supplier Regi is starting its US factory
The Italian firm specializing in the design and production of make-up products has commissioned its second plant abroad, in the United States in New Jersey. Explanations by Vittoria Cicchetti, CEO. Premium Beauty News - Quite a progression for your company since its creation, in 1994. What explains this success? Vittoria Cicchetti - S...
Italian American Culture – The Art of Musical Composition
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 – 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). "Amahl" was the first ope...
United Grapes of America: U.S. becomes world’s No.1 wine market as French drinking drops
The United States became the world's biggest wine market last year, beating France into second place for the first time as consumption falls in the country widely seen as the drink's natural home. U.S. consumers bought 29.1 million hectoliters of wine in 2013, a rise of 0.5 percent on 2012, while French consumption fell nearly 7 percent to 28.1 mi...
For GRAMMYs, “Joe DeRose and Amici” Nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Record of the Year
by Mauro Battocchi Peace Streets, the instrumental jazz album by Joe DeRose and Amici has been included in the 57th Grammy Award nominations entry list. Mr. DeRose, a San Jose native of Italian American descent, started playing drums when he was five and eventually went to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since graduatio...
Christmas Coffee with Nonna Isolina Helped Dreams Come True
By Cookie Curci It's a fine line drawn by our parents and grandparents, in the lessons that teach us independence while at the same time anchoring us with their love. These stories and family histories are a guidepost for each generation, filled with the successes and dreams of our parents and grandparents, the words have a power all their own. Th...
All In The Genetic Family
When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died last month, much was made in the media about his longtime friendship with fellow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While the two oldest justices on the court occupied opposite ends of the political spectrum, they surprised many by being, as Derrick Wang's new opera, "Scalia/Ginsburg," has them sing, "best b...
Gli italiani nella NBA, parte 2: Belinelli e Gallinari
Marco Belinelli e Danilo Gallinari saranno i due italiani protagonisti del grande basket americano nella prossima stagione. Marco è sbarcato oltreoceano nel 2007. Da allora ha cambiato 6 squadre, raggiungendo soddisfazioni e traguardi mai toccati prima da un cestista italiano. Nel 2013-2014, con la maglia dei San Antonio Spurs, ha conquist...
Hee Haw co-creator and producer Sam Lovullo dies at age 88
Sam Lovullo, who as producer and co-creator of "Hee Haw" brought country music and homestyle humor to millions of American homes, has died at age 88, his publicists said Thursday. Lovullo died peacefully at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday, publicists the Brokaw Company said. No immediate cause of death was given,...