Your New Italian Tour de Force Goes Like This
With all due respect to Nonnas around the world... Please, take a seat. For now we share a world with Mazzi Cucina, a new sliver of eccentricity serving some of the most authentic Italian we've seen around these parts in a while, now open in North Miami Beach. Before you launch into one of those "Oh, another Italian restaurant" m...
Dal Cuore brings Italy's flavor to Johns Creek
by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson Nestled behind the QT and Waffle House on the corner of State Bridge and Jones Bridge roads in Johns Creek sits a taste of Italy with a dash of New York. Dal Cuore restaurant, located at 2100 Ray Moss Connector in Johns Creek, is an authentic New York-Italian restaurant featuring family recipes passed do...
New season of Spoleto Festival USA opens Friday
The new season of the Spoleto Festival USA lights up stages across Charleston beginning on Friday. Here's a guide to this year's edition of the internationally known arts festival. A bit of history — Spoleto was founded in Charleston in 1977 by the renowned composer Gian Carlo Menotti, modeled after and as a companion to his Festival of T...
Italian seafood finds a foothold in the South
by Hanna Raskin The relative scarcity of spaghetti and meatballs in Charleston could bode well for the future of Italian food here, observers say. According to Nicolo de Rienzo, an Italian food writer now researching a story about eating in the U.S. South, many Southern cities appear less bound by the red-sauce traditions that rei...
America and the Old World: Food, Health and Culture. Il Forum di Miami gemellato con Expo. Paolo Cuccia tra i relatori
Si terrà il 12 marzo in Florida, presso il Miami Dade College, il Forum America and the Old World: Food, Health and Culture che esplora il patrimonio culturale gastronomico americano e come le sue radici influenzino abitudini alimentari, gusti e benessere di un'intera nazione. L'iniziativa si inquadra nella più ampia rassegna Feeding the P...
Rigoletto onstage at SMDCAC, August 15 & 16
The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center and Miami Lyric Opera will present Rigoletto on Aug. 15 at 8 p.m. and Aug. 16 at 4 p.m. Miami Lyric Opera masterfully performs the classic work that defined Italian opera, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. Famous for mocking the husbands of the women the...
Calabria Ristorante You’ll Love Our Spin On Pizza!
Located at 13900 CR 455, in the Publix Shopping Center, Calabria offers a relaxed family atmosphere, full bar, and covered patio seating outside. We provide a great menu for lunch or dinner, indoors or on the patio. Calabria Ristorante features delicious Italian food, including pastas, seafood and New York-style pizza, all at fair prices. Owners,...
Free Italian films at Coral Gables Museum
The Coral Gables Museum is showing free Italian films once a month in the courtyard this fall. The first film will be the "L'Estate di Martino" (2010) directed by Massimo Natale (which is also being shown free at The Wolfsonian-FIU Friday). All films are in Italian with English subtitles. The film will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the court...
Mangia at Soya e Pomodoro In Taste Of The Town
by Lisa Petrillo There's an Italian eatery in downtown Miami with a huge fan base of local customers because of its simple, delicious food. Soya e Pomodoro is downtown Miami's hidden gem just off First street It's Old World Italian at its best. "This is the best eggplant I've ever had," exclaimed CBS4′s Lisa Petrillo as she bit into...
Italian company expands operations to USA
Euro Group, an Italian industrial company that supplies electrical steel laminations to the makers of electric motors and generators announced that it had purchased Tecumseh Products in Paris, Tennessee. In a further update on the purchased, the Milan, Italy-based company plans to use Paris, Tennessee as its American base of operations. Eu...
Eighth annual Nuovo Cinema Italiano invites us into the heart of Italy
"Passione. Musica. Violenza. Vita." These four words flashed on the screen amidst clips of fighting, dancing, kissing and beautiful Italian scenery. And so started a weekend full of Italian theatre. This past weekend, the eighth annual Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival took place in the Sottile Theatre in full force. The College of Charl...
PieTopia to bring 'meter pizzas' and more to 4th Street in St. Pete
by Eric Snider The slew of new restaurants invading the Fourth Street North corridor in St. Petersburg have a couple of common characteristics: Most are independently, and locally, owned; several possess a culinary ambitiousness that sets a new bar for the trade area. The forthcoming PieTopia gets check marks for both criteria. The u...