This US couple bought and renovated a 14th-century Italian home
Buying and renovating a home in Italy was something Doug and Leah Johnson had often dreamed about. The couple, who are based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, say they’d sometimes go to view houses while vacationing in the European country. But splashing out on a property there hadn’t seemed like a viable option until Doug came across a listing for a 1...
Giro Trattoria & Pizza serves authentic Italian fare
Diego Stefani said when he and his wife, Jerusha Stefani, opened their Italian restaurant in Flower Mound in October 2019, the business name was Giro Pizza. He likens the dining style to what people experience in a Brazilian steak house, in which customers signal when they wanted more pizza and servers brought them more. “Giro means ‘tour.’ The nam...
What the World Can Learn From an Italian City’s Approach to Mental Health
Mental illness haunts me in two different ways. The first surrounds me, living and working in Los Angeles daily. When I see people half naked, lying on the hot sidewalk, on my way to the trendy new coffee house. When I meet parents searching for their missing adult children and being turned away by agencies who can help—but will not—because it woul...
'A useful reset': How Giants OF Michael Conforto is using a lost year to get ready for a crucial 2023
He just turned 30. He bats left-handed. He boasts a career 124 OPS+ — the same as Nolan Arenado and Rafael Devers — and he was a free agent this winter. By those measures, you’d expect a bidding war for a long-term centerpiece. But Michael Conforto was a special case. The former New York Mets outfielder slumped in 2021, his original contract year,...
Emilia-Romagna, queen of Pdo and Pgi food in EU
Emilia-Romagna is a veritable mine of tastes and agri-food products. It is the region with the highest number of Pdo and Pgi food products in Europe and therefore in the world, since Italy with 290 certified products is abundantly the queen of this ranking. Figures don’t lie: Emilia-Romagna has achieved, with 44 products, the European record for ag...
A taste of Italy is coming to Dickinson this weekend
If you're wanting to know more about Italian culture then Dickinson is the place you want to be this weekend. On Saturday, the city is hosting its 4th annual "Dickinson Little Italy Festival of Galveston County." There will be a huge market at the festival featuring more than 30 vendors who will be offering an assortment of food, information and wa...
Italy: InvestEU - €3.4 billion to modernise the Palermo-Catania railway line
The modernisation of 178 km of the Palermo-Catania line will reduce current travel times by a third, linking the two cities with a direct two-hour rail service, which will have a significant impact on economic, social, and sustainable development in Sicily. The EIB has approved a €2.1 billion mega-intervention, divided into a direct €800 million lo...
Everything Italian at Italian Corner
Daughter Robin travels from East Greenwich to East Providence to buy her Italian deli products and ready-packaged Italian dinners at the Italian Corner. It is a much shorter trip from Edgewood or even Warwick on 95 North to 195 East to the Warren/Barrington/Seekonk exit. The deli/restaurant sits on the hill at the corner of Warren Ave. and Boyd Ave...
Leonardo da Vinci's mother was a Circassian princess who became a slave
Leonardo da Vinci's mother was named Caterina, a document discovered in the State Archives of Florence reveals that she was a Circassian princess, daughter of Prince Yakob, who ruled one of the kingdoms on the highlands of the northern Caucasus mountains: after being kidnapped, probably by the Tartars, she was enslaved and sold back to the Venetian...
Trailblazing Former Hartford Mayor Ann Uccello Dies at 100
Former Hartford mayor Ann Uccello has died at the age of 100, according to Gov. Ned Lamont. Ann Ucello took office as Mayor of Hartford in 1967. She was the first female mayor in Connecticut and the first woman to be elected mayor of a U.S. capital city. She was re-elected to a second term in 1969 and is the last Republican to be elected to the pos...
Discovering Jupiter, Italy leading Juice mission
Jupiter is not just a planet, it is a gas giant, and studying its icy moons will also shed new light on the origin of life on our planet and the dynamics between the Sun and the celestial bodies revolving around it. That is the goal of the investigation of the Juice probe, which will be launched from Europe's Kurou spaceport in French Guiana on Apr...
Northern California’s Very First Italian Restaurant Has Literally Been Around Forever
Would it surprise you to know the oldest Italian restaurant in California is located in San Francisco? Fior d’Italia opened in 1886. The restaurant’s name means, “flower of Italy”. Over the decades, the restaurant has changed ownership and even briefly closed for about 6 months in 2012. Despite the brief changes and closing, customers keep coming b...