"Fashion is Female: Lights on Italian Design as Cultural Legacy" At the Italian Cultural Institute in Miami
Last March 16 on the occasion of Italian Design Day, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy in Miami opened the exhibition "Fashion is Female: Lights on Italian Design as Cultural Legacy." Organized in collaboration with Istituto Marangoni Miami, the exhibition pays tribute to the creativity, artistic sensibility and desi...
Crust Simply Italian is coming to Mesa. And you could name the restaurant's new speakeasy
Crust Simply Italian is set to open its fourth location this fall in downtown Mesa. The new location will be part of Mesa's The Grid, a new commercial and residential development in a previously underutilized parking structure. Crust owner Michael Merendino, a first-generation Italian American, grew up watching his father make pizzas in Long Island...
The iconic pasta causing an Italian-American dispute
"Right now, we can't talk about anything else," my friend, a foreign affairs reporter in Rome, wrote to me. She wasn't talking about politics, but about pasta carbonara. A few minutes after her message, a New York writer friend told me he was being flown to Rome in a hurry to investigate the topic. On 23 March, the Financial Times published an arti...
Ecobelli siblings bring grandmother’s story to screen in ‘Laurina’ in Albany
After years of stops and starts, the story of Laurina Ecobelli is finally coming to the big screen on Monday in Albany. Called “Laurina,” the short film is part of a longtime effort by Ecobelli’s grandchildren, Tom, an actor and screenwriter, and his sister Lora Lee, a writer and actress, to bring her heartbreaking and inspiring story to film. Long...
After 100 Years, Brooklyn’s G. Esposito & Sons Pork Store Is Closing
G. Esposito & Sons Jersey Pork Store, a butcher shop in Carroll Gardens, is closing after 100 years in business. A sign posted to the Court Street shop’s store states that April 10 is the last day for one of Brooklyn’s oldest butchers. G. Esposito & Sons opened in Carroll Gardens a century ago, originally on Columbia Street, after the founder moved...
IAP 272: we stand on the shoulders. A monument to the Sicilian sugar cane harvesters of Louisiana
Louisiana native Charles Marsala has done a lot to promote the history of Italian life in the Bayou State. From creating hours of documentary videos to a mobile app that provides a free walking tour of over sixty Italian American points of interest in and around the Crescent City, the President of the American Italian Federation of the Southeast n...
Schiacciata All'uva: Italy's Grape-Studded Focaccia
Every autumn in Tuscan wine country, wine grapes become ready for harvest. This season is very busy for this region of Italy, and many like to celebrate the harvest with a traditional delicacy called "schiacciata all'uva," or grape focaccia. Focaccia is a savory Italian bread that is typically used for sandwiches or a quick snack. But in this reci...
Nino's Pastry Shoppe Opening Second Location in Ewing, NJ
Lucky you. Soon you'll be able to get Nino's pastries at another spot in Mercer County. Nino's Pastry Shoppe on Quakerbridge Road in Hamilton Township, well known for its Italian pastries, Italian cookies, cakes and other goodies, is expanding. The bakery is opening a second location on Scotch Road in Ewing. It's going to be where the old Italian P...
10 best places to watch the sunset in Campania
There are some activities never going out of fashion: one of them is admiring the sunset in company of a special person. Campania, from this point of view, is a particularly suitable region if you are a hopeless romantic and never tire of admiring the changes in the sky, each time different, each time magnificent. There will certainly be those tell...
“The American Ferrari” – An Original Apollo 3500GT
The Apollo 3500GT is a rare American-Italian GT car from the 1960s that has been nicknamed “the American Ferrari,” and it’s been rapidly growing in popularity as more people learn of its existence. The car has a beautiful Italian-built body fitted over an American V8-powered drivetrain, offering owners the best of both worlds – exotic styling but r...
You Could Win $1 Million by Deciphering These Ancient Roman Scrolls
Want to take home up to $1 million? All you need to do is read four ancient passages, each one only about the length of a tweet—without opening the scrolls they’re written on. This is the challenge posed by a group of classicists, papyrologists and technical experts: the Vesuvius Challenge, to be precise. Led by Brent Seales, a computer scientist a...
The Sicilian Butcher: A fitting Italian tribute
A serial restaurateur, Joey Maggiore is embarking on his most personal venture yet: The Sicilian Butcher. A tribute to his late father, the restaurant celebrates his Italian heritage and the foods he would cook for Maggiore as a child. “He gave his life for Italian food and culture,” Maggiore said of his father. In every location of The Sicilian Bu...