Rehoboth UNICO hosts pasta challenge and movie night
Four UNICO members prepared their favorite pasta dish and provided a taste for everyone to judge. Pictured behind the table are (l-r) Ed Mason, challenge coordinator, and competitors Nick Ruggieri, Frank Cappelli, Arthur Chomas and Suzanne Failla. Being served in front are Anthony Mazzareli and Monica Viana. Sixty area UNICO members and guests enj...
Michele Ferrero, maker of Nutella, dies on Valentine’s Day
By Nicole Winfield Michele Ferrero, the world's richest candy maker whose Nutella chocolate and hazlenut spread helped raise generations of Europeans and defined Italian sweets, died on Valentine's Day, the company said. He was 89. Ferrero, who had been ill for several months, died Saturday in Montecarlo where he lived, surrounded by...
Uffizi president honored by American friends of gallery
By Shannon Donnelly Meredith Marshall opened her Midtown home for a reception to kick off the annual Palm Beach gathering of the American Friends of the Uffizi Gallery.The event took place Feb. 2 and honored Contessa Maria Vittoria Colonna Rimbotti, president of the Amici degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy. The evening included poolside cocktails, h...
Italian art: The Prince of Dreams
WTI Magazine #55 2015 March, 6Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: John Cabot University An important exhibition, for its beauty and rareness, will be hosted at the Salone dei Corazzieri in Palazzo del Quirinale until April 12, 2015. The exhibition is based on the entire cycle of tapestries on the story of Joseph narrated in the...
Giorgia, una bolzanina si fa onore in America
Il sogno a stelle e strisce di Giorgia Battisti non solo si è realizzato ma è diventato una piacevole e proficua quotidianità. Si sa, lo sport ad alto livello gola a qualsiasi atleta. Se poi si è una giocatrice di hockey cosa c’è meglio del Nordamerica? Nulla. Ed ecco che quell’anno di stacco dalla scuola italiana per andare a fare un’espe...
Venetian contessa launches prosecco line in Chicago – April 9 to 11
Venetian cooking school founder and author Contessa Enrica Rocca uncorks her debut line of Prosecco this April, following its successful launch in Europe. Made from hand-harvested Glera grapes, Enrica Rocca Prosecco is produced in a small vineyard in the Veneto. Both varieties, the classic Brut and the sweeter Extra Dry, were created in compliance...
Great Italians of the Past: Artemisia Gentileschi
WTI Magazine #57 2015 April, 3Author : Giovanni Verde Translation by: Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome on July 8, 1593. Since she is a child, she shows to have an extraordinary talent for painting, also pushed by the stimulating Roman environment made by several artists friends of his father Orazio, also a painter. The style of...
Springfield Area Education Foundation hosts all-you-can-eat-Italian buffet Thursday – April 16
The Springfield Area Education Foundation holds an all-you-can-eat-Italian-buffet Thursday, at the Spring Valley Banquet and Meeting Facility, 400 W. Woodland Ave. Springfield Area Education Foundation has teamed with DiFabio's 9th Street Market and Catering Co.'s Chef Jeff Deal for a full array of appetizers, entrees and desserts. Th...
Milan At the Center of the World: A Report from the Expo – May 19, 6.30 pm
Milan has captured the attention of the world as the site of its Expo from May 1 to October 31. This is the first such fair to have a specific theme — "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" — that looks to the future of sustainability in the context of taste, health, culture and pleasure. Fred Plotkin, world-renowned expert on everything It...
Università di Bari scopre la proteina che causa il diabete alimentare
La principale responsabile della morte delle cellule che producono l'insulina, causando il diabete «alimentare», è la proteina «p66shc», ribattezzata la «proteina killer». A scoprila è stata l'equipe del dipartimento di Endocrinologia dell'Università di Bari, guidata dal professore Francesco Giorgino. «Abbiamo individuato - spiega il professore -...
Zappala reminisces about parochial grammar school in 'Bless Me Sister'
By Terry Date Tom Zappala, 62, is back in the old Italian neighborhood this spring day dropping by the place where he grew up, home to memories that unfold on the pages in his book "Bless Me Sister." It's a nostalgic and often humorous look back to the late 1950s and 1960s in a six-block area rich in Italian-American culture, a time...
2nd Annual Ferrari Concours d'Elegance
Dozens of Ferraris will fill Lake Kathleen's venue for the OFFICIAL Ferrari Club of America NW's event! Last year over 60 Ferraris, including 250 GTO, Enzo and 599 SA aperta awed the audience- and 2015 will be no exception. Cars will be divided into 10 classes, including Famous Race Cars and People's Choice awards. Gates open to...