Italian American Society of Marco Welcomes One of Their Own!
The Italian American Society of Marco Island was so pleased to have the new Police Chief, Tracy Frazzano, as their guest speaker at the January members meeting. She spent time speaking about her background, both her Italian heritage and her law enforcement career, along with her visit to Italy. She visited the sister city of Aquilonia, in the provi...
Preci: Italy's mediaeval village of surgeons
The village of Preci lies at the northern end of the Monte Sibillini Park in Umbria. Perched among rolling hills, sweeping pastures and scatterings of small farms, it seems the unlikeliest place in the world to have spawned a school of celebrated surgeons whose skills were virtually unrivalled in Europe for almost five centuries. Preci is one of It...
Traveling With Chef Stefano Secchi: Bringing The Dishes Of Emilia Romagna To NYC
When the doors at Rezdora open at 5 PM each evening—seven days a week—a line of pasta lovers is likely to be waiting outside, all hoping to snag a last-minute cancellation or, perhaps, a seat at the bar. Reservations at Chef Stefano Secchi’s 60-seat, Flatiron eatery have been tough to come by since its opening in May 2019. Then came the three-star...
The Day I Stepped into the MoMA and Dreamed of Working in New York
In the summer of 2014 I visited New York City for the first time. Back then, I couldn’t imagine that my trip would have been the first step in realizing my biggest dream: to live and work in the Big Apple. During that holiday I went to the Museum of Modern Art and I visited the “Architecture & Design” section: design was put at the same level as ar...
Fincantieri enters the nuclear project ITER
Fincantieri has been awarded a prestigious order, worth almost 100 million euros, for a number of high-profile equipment furniture and installations as part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a project aimed at building an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, first of this kind, and acknowledged as one of the most ambit...
The 10 Best Cooking and Wine Vacations in Italy for 2020
Close your eyes for a moment and think about ethnic food, and name as many dishes as you can for each country. I'll take a guess that Italian is the longest list. Think about the number of ethnic restaurants you can go to, and I would bet you have a pretty solid selection of Italian food. Now think about a fine wine, and I would bet something Itali...
Phillies manager Joe Girardi steals show at sports writers banquet
Joe Girardi swung and belted a grand slam Monday night at the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association Banquet. The new manager of the Philadelphia Phillies delivered a lively, wide-ranging speech in which he connected with fans of all sports and all Philadelphia teams to earn a standing ovation at the Crowne Plaza in Cherry Hill, N.J. He praised Na...
Neuromed. Il consumo di peperoncino dimezza il rischio di morire di infarto o ictus
Il peperoncino piccante è un ospite molto frequente sulle tavole degli Italiani, e nel corso dei secoli sono stati in tanti a decantarne virtù terapeutiche di vario tipo. Ora una ricerca condotta dal Dipartimento di Epidemiologia e Prevenzione dell’I.R.C.C.S. Neuromed di Pozzilli, in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Oncologia e Medicina Moleco...
‘Rigoletto’: High drama from St. Petersburg Opera Company
Love, lust, seduction. Lies, betrayal, revenge. Murder most foul. Comeuppance. Shakespeare set ‘em up like bowling pins and had his fictional characters knock them down, one by one, over and over again. And from there to Dallas and Dynasty, from Downtown Abbey to Game of Thrones, these have always been the staples, the tried-and-trues, of dramatic...
The billionaire from the Bronx who bought Italy's Fiorentina is not your typical football club chairman
“Rocco! Rocco! Rocco!” The shouts echoed around ACF Fiorentina’s 88-year-old stadium on a Sunday evening in January as the home crowd celebrated a narrow win against Spal that may prove crucial in keeping their team in Italy’s top football league. The adulation wasn’t for a star player or coach, but for the club’s new owner, Rocco Commisso, the bil...
The Italian Way debuts at Winter Fancy Food
At the Winter Fancy Food Show 2020 edition in San Francisco, The Italian Way – Food&Beverage Excellence made its official debut on global markets (at the International Pavilion, South Hall, Booths 1456-1458). The new Italian food promotion project has put together by The Bridge, Caffè Gioia, Conserve Rispoli, Italtipici, and Smeraldina companies. T...
Medical cannabis is now free in Sicily
The cost of prescriptions for medical cannabis for patients in Sicily will now be covered by regional authorities, following a decree signed by Sicilian health chief Ruggero Razza. The news means that patients suffering from chronic pain, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis will have free access to medical cannabis, according to Italian news agen...