Recipes From America’s Italian Communities – Part 5
As immigrants from the different regions of Italy settled throughout the various regions of the United States, many brought with them a distinct regional Italian culinary tradition. Many of these foods and recipes developed into new favorites for the townspeople and later for Americans nationwide. Italians arriving in New Orleans often wen...
Liberati Enjoying North American Debut This Weekend
By Tony DiZinno The No. 22 STR Lamborghini Huracán LP 620-2 hasn't figured in too much to this year's Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo North America season, but has been on pace this weekend with arrival of young 22-year-old Edoardo Liberati alongside Fernando Barbachano this weekend. Liberati, who replaces Max Biancardi, is the latest...
Patron Saint of Immigrants: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
The first American citizen to be canonized a saint was an immigrant to our country and her life was dedicated to the care of immigrants. Coming to America, however, wasn't what Frances Cabrini had in mind when she journeyed from Milan to Rome in AD 1887 to meet with the Successor of Peter. She wanted be a missionary in China. From the time...
Gli italiani nella NBA, parte 1: da Rusconi a Datome
Radio Italia e la NBA. Il meglio della musica italiana e il top del basket professionistico americano insieme per una grande ed esclusiva partnership. Ripassiamo un po' di storia. Il primo italiano a giocare nella NBA è stato Stefano Rusconi che nel 1995 tenta il grande salto oltreoceano e firma con i Phoenix Suns. La sua avventura dura un...
He’s the Bomb: An Enrico Fermi Biography
By Gregg Herken THE POPE OF PHYSICSEnrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic AgeBy Gino Segrè and Bettina HoerlinIllustrated. 351 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $30. In a controversial lecture more than 50 years ago, the British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow suggested that natural scientists had "the future in their bones." Snow was spea...
Italian American Culture – The Art Of Entertainment
The voice of Snow White in the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released in 1937 belonged to Adriana Caselotti. The 21-year-old coloratura soprano beat out 148 other candidates for the role. Her father Guido Caselotti, an immigrant from Italy, was a teacher of music and a vocal coach. Her mother, Maria Oref...
Piero Tosi Wins Academy Award
Renowned costume and set designer Piero Tosi received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his outstanding design career. He earned five Academy Award nominations for costume design, in the films La Traviata (1983), La Cage aux Folles (1978), The Leopard (1963), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973) – the latter three in collab...
Bradshaw International Signs North America Distribution & Licensing Agreement with Italian Cookware & Coffee Maker Brand Bialetti
Bradshaw International, a premier marketer of housewares in the U.S., today announced that it has reached an agreement with Bialetti Industrie S.p.A. (http://www.bialetti.it), the leading Italian coffee maker and cookware company as the brand's North American partner. The partnership provides a 25-year license agreement for Bialetti cookwa...
The 500-plus(!) native wine grapes of Italy, from Aglianico to Zibibbo
Got the hammock strung up? Check. A chilled bottle of Prosecco or Vermentino? Check. Notebook handy? Pen or pencil? Check. Time to do some studying. Our textbook: "Native Wine Grapes of Italy" by Ian D'Agata (University of California Press, Berkeley). That's 620 pages of hard-won knowledge about Italy's familiar and obscure grapes, includi...
Made of Italians: l’Expo 2015 per gli italiani all’estero
È rivolto agli italiani residenti all'estero e ai cittadini stranieri di origine italiana "Made of Italians", il progetto di Expo 2015 cui hanno aderito le Consulte regionali per l'emigrazione. Il progetto, si legge sul sito di Expo, è stato pensato per garantire "un'accoglienza speciale", per far vivere ai connazionali "l'esperienza emozionan...
MV Agusta USA Adds to Dealer Network
As part of its strategy to enhance and selectively grow the dealer network in the USA, MV Agusta has been working together with existing and new dealer owners to expand its regional footprint and better serve consumers. "We have a continual strategy to make changes in selected open areas where rider demand is high and the prospective MV ri...
Italian Grandmothers Try Olive Garden For First And Last Time
by Ron Dicker That's pretty harsh, nonna. In a new viral video, BuzzFeed asked Italian grandmas to try Olive Garden for the first time. For the most part, they're predictably underwhelmed -- and hilarious. "Merda" and "who the f**k made this?" may not be the kind of reviews found in certain publications, but did you really ex...