Luscious Restaurant Quality Italian Dishes Are Now On board American Airlines
Major airlines frequently experiment with their meal offerings in the premium cabins, linking with world class chefs to produce top of the line dishes that can survive microwave oven reheating and the inevitable dulling of passengers’ taste buds at 30,000 feet. It’s a real challenge; some chefs succeed, others, no matter the number of Michelin star...
The Meaning and Melodrama of an Italian-American Christmas
Grandma Bruni lived in a working-class neighborhood in a two-family home that I’d struggle to describe — it was that ordinary, that humble. But it was known for blocks in every direction, at least around this time of year, and not because she went wild with multicolored lights or put one of those sleigh-plus-Santa monstrosities on the roof, the way...
Garibaldi and the American Civil War
Garibaldi… who does not know the man who unified Italy? Well, in fact, the merit was not all his and the old man does have a fair share of critics, but what can we do: Garibaldi’s is a case where popular belief has made a far deeper impression than history itself. Whatever he really did, whether he was a good or bad commander, Italians are not like...
Nicole Romano: 19 Who Made a Difference in 2019
Nicole Romano is a designer, businesswoman and fearless. Stack up the accomplishments. She is everywhere. From fashion week in NYC to appearing on GoLocal LIVE to developing new designs, Romano is a whirlwind of creative energy. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Romano forged ahead by launching her own multidimensional brand with the enc...
What is Orange Wine?
Walk into any wine shop and it’s hard not to run into someone talking about “orange wines,” which have been undergoing quite the renaissance in recent years. But what is orange wine, exactly? First things first: “orange wine” is not a type of wine made from a magical, orange grape. In short, orange wines are produced with white wine grapes but vini...
Trump Impeachment Trial Turns Spotlight On White House Lawyer Cipollone
President Trump has often surrounded himself with lawyers whom he sees as being good on television. But Pat Cipollone, the attorney who will play a leading role in Trump's Senate impeachment trial defense, is better known for working behind the scenes. Even as an architect of the White House's fight against impeachment, Cipollone has performed his...
Samuele F. S. Pardini, In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans and Modernity
"If there is one thing that we learned from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, it is that the way others see or do not see us (the latter being a way of seeing too) is just as, if not more important than the way we define ourselves. We are never what and who we think we are." In this simple yet powerful statement, Samuele Pardini sets out his aim to ex...
Italian Great Rocky Marciano Lived the American Dream
Some historians have called the 1950s the greatest period of peace and prosperity in America: The 1950s represented a golden era of achievement, undergirded by an affirming age of simplicity, when homespun, working values and patriotism were at an all-time high for the multitudes of multicultural, multiethnic makeup of its citizenry. America was a...
Keeping Bar: How to Use Amaro in Your Cocktails
At the end of a meal, you may reach for a glass of scotch or cup of coffee, but according to some bartenders, what you should be reaching for is an amaro. The Italian category of liqueurs (the word means “bitter” in Italian) is wide ranging, and while they’re often served on their own, they also make for great cocktails. Amari have a long history....
'Dominick the Donkey' has roots in New Jersey
The year was 1960. John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for president, and the civil rights movement was gaining traction. Frankie Avalon, Elvis Presley and The Drifters topped the charts. And a crooner from Bergen County released a novelty Christmas song about a donkey that, nearly six decades later, remains a love-it-or-hate-it holiday earworm...
Celebrity Chef Lidia Bastianich Explains Love Of Cooking And Italian Cuisine
Lidia Bastianich is an Emmy-winning television host, a successful chef and restaurateur, and a best-selling cookbook author. She made her name by introducing American diners to the dishes of her Italian childhood. Bastianich spent the first 10 years of her life with her grandmother in Croatia. “I was grandma's little helper sort of running things,”...
Usa, più spazio al Parmigiano Reggiano negli store Whole Foods Markets di Amazon
Il Consorzio Parmigiano Reggiano ha firmato un accordo con Whole Food Markets per aumentare i volumi della Dop in oltre 500 punti vendita tra Stati Uniti, Canada e Regno Unito. In pratica la catena americana si impegna a dare un’adeguata presentazione del prodotto all’interno dei supermercati per aiutare il consumatore a distinguere il Parmigiano R...