Kenilworth’s Massimo Deli Competes for Best Mutz in New Jersey
The 2022 winners of the Best Mutz in New Jersey, Massimo Deli, are at it again competing for the best mozzarella in the central Jersey region. Voting began on May 15 and goes until May 29. To vote you must join Jersey Sandwich Joints or Jersey Pizza Joints on Facebook. To vote please go HERE. Back in March on nj.com Massimo Deli made the publicatio...
The Cowboys of the Wild West in… Italy? A new exhibit focuses on the Butteri
Karen McWhorter, the Collier-Read director of Curatorial, Education, and Museum Services at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, walked into the center’s temporary photography exhibit space. “We'll walk through and check out a couple of these. Some are printed in larger format on metal,” McWhorter said as she started a quick tour of the newest phot...
Festa della Sensa: celebrating Venice’s maritime heritage
The Festa della Sensa is a traditional Venetian celebration that takes place on the Sunday following the Ascension, which is usually in May or early June. The festival commemorates the historical and spiritual importance of Venice as a maritime power and highlights the city’s relationship with the sea. The event dates back to the 9th century and wa...
Italian creativity blooms at Las Vegas’ brand-new Basilico
Francesco Di Caudo was part of the opening team at Anima by Edo that helped earn this year’s James Beard Award finalist status for Oscar Amador in the Best Chef Southwest category. (Winners will be announced June 5 in Chicago). But that’s just one of the recent accomplishments for Di Caudo, who has without question left his impression on the Las Ve...
Corleone: the Sicilian town trying to break free of its mobster past
If it weren’t called Corleone, this small, quaint town would appear to visitors as one of many others of the Sicilian hinterland: groups of elderly people strolling in a semi-deserted square, rows of low sand-coloured houses and a 16th-century church on the highest hill. It would be difficult to imagine that for almost half a century it was the str...
Posillipo district: discovering the Neapolitan hill where 'there is no more pain'
Among the renowned areas of Naples, Posillipo district is one of the most admired because of its strategic position offering spectacular views over the Bay of Naples and the island of Capri. Posillipo is one of the most evocative neighbourhoods in Naples, rich in history and timeless charm and therefore a pleasant stop-over or holiday destination f...
Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan Announces Support for Italian Bowl USA
Pietro G Fuciarelli, President of the Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan announced sponsorship support for the XLII Italian Bowl that will be played on July 1, 2023 at the University of Toledo Glass Bowl Stadium. Tickets for Toledo’s Italian Bowl can be purchased here. There are $15 general admission tickets and $30 reserved seats at the Glass Bowl...
New culinary experience: Andiamo Catering by Paravicini’s
Executive Chef Franco Pisani of popular Italian restaurants Paravicini’s and Ristorante Di Sopra in Old Colorado City, along with Lindsey Truitt, Director of Catering, joined FOX21 Morning News on Thursday, May 18 to talk about their newest venture: Andiamo Catering. “Andiamo Catering is here to serve any kind of party or festivity that you have, a...
Johnston adopts Christopher Columbus
Scrap metal or monument? Johnston picks the latter. Removed from its Providence pedestal in 2020 and locked away in storage, a 130-year-old statue depicting Christopher Columbus will be re-erected in Johnston’s War Memorial Park in October. In the 1890s, the same French artist who sculpted the Statue of Liberty — Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi — crafte...
Museum creators bring a vision to life on Passyunk Avenue
The History of Italian Immigration Museum HIIM is in South Philadelphia, but its perspective is global. It isn’t about South Philadelphia,” Michael Bonasera, its chairman and curator, said in an interview along with his wife, Wanda, who helped create the museum in 2014. “It isn’t about Philadelphia. It isn’t about America. It’s about immigration.”...
Ferrari donates €1 million to Italy region devastated by floods
Ferrari has donated €1 million towards relief efforts in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region in the wake of the devastating floods that have caused the deaths of at least 14 people. The funds will go to civil protection authorities engaged in the major relief operation across the region which was battered by floods after more than 20 rivers burs...
Marinara muscle: Full-scale Italian meal fuels Hawks’ power surge in Midwest Regional opener
Paul D’Alessio decided he needed to fuel the Quincy University baseball team with some Italian power this week. So Tuesday, he assembled the kind of feast a loving nonna would serve to her family at Sunday dinner. Pasta, meatballs, sausage, chicken cacciatore, etc. It was the kind of meal where you wipe the marinara off your chin and push yourself...