Mario Batali visits The BookMark Shoppe
World-famous culinary star and restauranteur Mario Batali stopped by The BookMark Shoppe in Bay Ridge on Saturday to meet his fans and sign copies of his new book. "Big American Cookbook" includes 250 of Batali's favorite recipes from across the USA. The BookMark Shoppe owner Christine Freglette welcomed Batali to the mom-and-pop and pop shop that...
A Place for Family and Italian-American Cocktails in Brooklyn
When John Sartor came back from the Vietnam War, he and a buddy opened a bar in Cliffside Park, N.J., called R. Jay's Pub, a no-frills hangout for his family and friends. "The bar was a familiar place for me," said Alyssa Sartor, his daughter. "You could say I grew up on a barstool." Ms. Sartor now has her own place, August Laura, a c...
Il Morellino vola in America. Made in Italy oltreoceano
Per un'intera settimana il Morellino di Scansano, il rosso fresco e corposo DOCG, tipica etichetta della provincia di Grosseto, in Maremma, sarà protagonista di un Tour ricco di eventi e, naturalmente, di degustazioni per gli appassionati d'oltreoceano. Un programma che, dal 5 al 10 maggio, a New York City e a Washington, prevede workshop e semina...
Gruppo Argol Villanova Expands in the Americas with Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Argol Villanova Group, Italian leader in global integrated logistic services, completed its first strategic investment in the United States. Argol Villanova Group, through its U.S. subsidiary, Argol America, Inc., acquired an equity interest in Eagle Support Services Corporation, a security and logistic services provider based in Alabama, with ope...
Staten Island Restaurant Review: Pasticceria Bruno offers impressive food, excellent service
What?! Four-and-a-half stars for Pasticceria Bruno in Dongan Hills, an Italian bakery that serves breakfast, brunch and dinner every day but Monday? Oh, yes — indeed, the honor seems more than appropriate for a business that doles out excellent service alongside equally impressive food. Read more Source: http://www.s...
La Santa Caterina d'Alessandria di Raffaello vola a New York
Promuovere la candidatura di Urbino a capitale Europea della cultura 2019 e diffondere la conoscenza del suo patrimonio artistico-culturale. Con questi obiettivi la regione Marche, la citta' e la Soprintendenza di Urbino, in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York promuovono un'esposizione straordinaria della Santa Caterina d'...
Italian-fluent U.S.-licensed Contract Review Attorneys
Job DescriptionClassification: Attorney-licensed I 0-3 yrs exp Compensation: $45.00 to $45.00 per hour Robert Half Legal is currently seeking Italian-fluent attorneys licensed in any United States jurisdiction for a short-term contract review project that is expected to start in the next 1-2 weeks in Midtown Manhattan. Prior review experi...
Academy Theatre's 'A View From the Bridge' intimate, enchanting
by Erin McCarthy The Academy Theatre presents the area's first 2014 theatrical production with Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," directed by Ted Watts Jr. The tragedy, the Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play in 1998 and adapted for film, television and the opera, takes place in an Italian-American neighborhood in 1950...
A Review of ‘Dom and Vinnie’s’ in Yonkers
Photo Dom and Vinnie's, an old-school neighborhood restaurant in Yonkers with a parlor and a main dining room, above, is often full of people enjoying a range of pizza and pasta dishes. Credit Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times. At one table were two police detectives (the holsters and handcuffs were a tip-off), having plates of pasta early on...
Creating a Renaissance for Italian Modernism
As the child of a Milanese art collector, Laura Mattioli grew up surrounded by masterpieces, many created by Italian artists she knew personally. But it wasn't until Mattioli was confined to bed during a difficult pregnancy, immobilized for six months next to one of Giorgio Morandi's most celebrated still lifes, that her love of art took a deeper t...
What to get at new Italian spot Via Carota
In a world where chefs are trademarking their signature dishes and ingredients are altered from liquids to solids and solids to foams, it is refreshing to find a restaurant where simplicity rules. That is what you'll find at Via Carota (51 Grove St., 212-255-1962), the new West Village restaurant by Rita Sodi (of I Sodi) and Jody Williams...
The Art of Making Pizza? It's a World Heritage to be added to the UNESCO's list
by Vincenza Di Maggio On monday evening, pizza aficionados gathered at Rosso Pomodoro, a restaurant tucked away on the corner of Greenwich Avenue and 13th street in downtown Manhattan, where a vital piece of Neapolitan culture, pizza, is not only being celebrated but preserved. Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, president of the Fondazione...