The Way It Was: Italian America in the 1950s
They came from the “old” country—that’s what the immigrants called Italy. As a first-generation Italian American, of the 40s and 50s, I have some emotive memories growing up Italian. I remember them well. The thing I most cherished about “growing up Italian,” was the closeness and camaraderie shared among family and friends. One has to understand t...
Presentate a Perugia le iniziative per le celebrazioni del 50mo anniversario del gemellaggio Assisi-San Francisco
Una serie di appuntamenti per onorare un rapporto di gemellaggio storico che, dopo 50 anni, è stato rinsaldato con una dichiarazione congiunta siglata lo scorso settembre in occasione della visita istituzionale di una delegazione del Comune di Assisi a San Francisco. Questa mattina a Perugia, nella sede della Giunta regionale di Palazzo Donini, il...
The Italy of good flavors
In Italy, the paths of food are infinite: there are so many typical products and dishes to taste, so many different flavors, you will only be spoilt for choice. Here is a selection of some of the most famous protagonists on Italian tables, coming from every part of the country. Mortadella. This type of cold cut doesn’t find a perfect translation...
Support the CSJ's Memorial to Italian Lynching Victims in New Orleans
On March 14, 1891, 11 Italians were lynched by an organized mob set on their own form of justice. Thousands of mob members stormed the Orleans Parish Prison, where these innocent men were held, broke in and savagely killed and hanged the men, setting off a national and then an international scandal. This set back Italy-U.S. relations, but, more s...
La cittadinanza italiana per iure sanguinis non scade mai!
In questi giorni ho partecipato ai lavori del Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all’Estero che ha tenuto la sua Assemblea plenaria. Oggi era l’ultimo giorno dei lavori e si è parlato, tra gli altri punti all’ordine del giorno, dello stato della rete diplomatico-consolare. Io sono intervenuta, nel dibattito, per chiedere spiegazioni ai due Direttori...
Dive Into Italian-Imported Sweetness at Dolce Vita Café
Dolce Vita Café in Yorktown Heights (1877 Commerce St; 914.505.0305) is the new sweet shop in town, bringing together family through coffee and pastries — directly imported from Italy. Husband-wife team Marsel and Anduela Prela opened the café in May, despite having had no prior industry experience. Marsel, who owns a Yorktown-based construction co...
Carretti Siciliani: the young faces of an ancient tradition
I think that speaking with an artist is always, always an honor. And for this reason, I was truly delighted and — I must admit — quite excited, by the idea of interviewing Flavia Pittalà, one third of DADAme Artisti Decoratori di Carretti Siciliani, a trio of young Sicilian, classically trained artists who decided to make of carretti decoration...
Seattle Opera Presents RIGOLETTO
For years, Lindy Hume, stage director of Seattle Opera's August production of Rigoletto, has been frustrated by the way opera celebrates misogyny through its "bad boy" characters. In beloved works such as Don Giovanni, Carmen, and Tosca, sopranos must rehearse how to fall, how to be stabbed, brutalized, and thrown across the room, behaviors they wo...
At Nello's Place, fine Italian dining the old-school way by the 'right people'
The year was 1981. The U.S. economy was in recession. Interest rates were in double digits. Jim Dad, a tall, skinny shy young man, was shoveling snow off houseboats on Shasta Lake for minimum wage, then $2 an hour. His father had died the year before in Yuba City, where Dad was raised on a farm, learning the virtues of hard work by picking peaches,...
Boston, Italian-style
A clear sky stretched over Boston Harbor like a taut, blue canvas, the sea air warming under the midday sun. The water was a smooth highway through which our water taxi skimmed toward moored sailboats. A white schooner sailed in fine trim off our port bow. "That's what I want next," said George Morton as he pointed out the schooner. Gray-haired and...
Dig reveals bull sacrifices took place in ancient Selinunte
Professor Clemente Marconi of New York University on Thursday presented the results and discoveries of the 13th international archaeological dig in the Selinunte Acropolis, conducted by NYU and the University of Milan in collaboration with the archaeological park in western Sicily. Particularly important were the findings of a votive deposit of per...
Fresh pasta, convenient location, affordable prices make Bartolo’s worth the drive to Park City
Bartolo’s has all the makings of a friendly neighborhood trattoria with its bright, corner location near the Swaner Nature Preserve in Kimball Junction and a welcome price point for residents and visitors. All it needs now is a few adjustments to sauces and service. Owner and chef Alex Bartolo worked in various Italian restaurants before opening hi...