Vince & Joe's Italian festival highlights the joy of cooking good food
One potato, two potato .... If there’s one thing Americans love to eat on the Fourth of July weekend, it’s potato salad. Just ask Vince and Joe Vitale. Back in 1996, only days before the holiday and before Vince and Joe’s became Vince & Joe’s Gourmet Market, the brothers ran out of everyone’s favorite summer salad, throwing customers into a tizzy. ...
Le novità di RAI Italia:il Direttore Marco Giudici alla plenaria del CGIE
“Più vi ascolto e più capisco quanto è importante quel poco che facciamo con la tv”. Così Marco Giudici ha salutato i consiglieri del Cgie riuniti in assemblea plenaria alla Farnesina. Dal Cgie, il direttore di Rai Italia si aspetta “tante osservazioni e proposte”. Dal canto suo, ha confidato, ogni volta che sente parlare di un argomento che riguar...
Italy returns to Newport Polo this saturday
On Saturday, July 7th at 5pm, Italy returns to Newport Polo for its 7th campaign against USA at the polo grounds at Glen Farm, home of the Newport International Polo Series. The 6-chukker exhibition polo match will mount USA, looking to continue their win streak against Italy, for a duration of approximately 2 hours. The match will conclude with a...
Brace. Little Italy Food Hall Debuts Soon with Six Restaurants
San Diego’s highly anticipated Little Italy Food Hall makes its debut inside the Piazza della Famiglia on Thursday, July 12, at 3 p.m. San Diego-based hospitality group Grain & Grit Collective — an extension of Sweet 100 that helped develop and expand local brands including Carnitas’ Snack Shack and Broken Yolk Café — gathered a collection of six r...
Save the date for our Ninth Annual Bocce Tournament and Festival on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018
Saturday, August 11, 2018. Parking lot across from the Heinz History Center and Hampton Inn & Suites - 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222. Come play some bocce for a worthy cause this summer at the History Center’s Ninth Annual Bocce Tournament and Festival. All proceeds from the event benefit the Italian American Program, which is dedicat...
Forget chicken parm — these NJ restaurants are serving real Italian cuisine
In the local foodie scene, many Central Jersey restaurateurs know me as the girl that will gobble anything up. However, I have a truly shocking secret to confess, one that is frequently followed by doubt and dismay. I don’t like cheese. No, not all cheese – I’ll say yes to a nibble of Pecorino and I’m even happy with some Parmigiano-Reggiano sprin...
Venice’s pali da casada and the history they hide
Every year hundreds of trees are cut down. They’re trimmed, sanded and hand-painted, then pile-driven into the dense mud of the Venetian lagoon. It’s a practice that has been going on for centuries for very good reasons, but few people give them a second glance. And even fewer know why they line the historic canals. So what are Venice’s multicolore...
Venezia e Chicago, un anno pieno di novità tra voli diretti e mostre
Il 5 maggio era stato inaugurato il nuovo volo diretto Venezia-Chicago di American Airlines mentre il 26 dello stesso mese è stata la volta della mostra Dimensions of Citizenship, curata dalla School of the Art Institute of Chicago e University of Chicago. La coincidenza è stata subito colta dall’ufficio del turismo di Chicago, da American Airlines...
Record Year For Italian Beer Production And Exports
Italian beer production recorded its highest volume to date in 2017 (15.6 million hectolitres), an increase of 7.5% on the previous year. Exports also achieved a new record, up 7.9% year-on-year, to 2.7 million hl. The figures come from the latest Annual Report by AssoBirra, an association that brings together two major malt producers and about 40...
Antonio Citterio’s ‘Arte’ condos top out in Surfside
Construction on a new mid-rise condo development in Miami’s Surfside neighborhood hit a milestone last week as crews topped-off the 12-story ‘Arte’ project at 8955 Collins Avenue. The upcoming oceanfront residences come from Italian architect Antonio Citterio in collaboration with local architect Kobi Karp. It represents the first U.S. building for...
'Goodfella' Paul Sorvino on New Jersey: 'I love you in my memory'
In a career spanning six decades, onetime Tenafly resident Paul Sorvino has played cops, killers, the hot-wired dad to Romeo’s Juliet in Baz Luhrman’s over-the-top “Romeo + Juliet” and a chubby Dick Tracy villain with a big mouth — literally — opposite Warren Beatty and Al Pacino. At 79, he remains as active as ever, with the 2018 indie thriller “B...
Vini d’Italia Experience in Usa e Canada. Indagine sui mercati da presidiare
Non ci sono solo gli States nel Nord America. Noi siamo partiti dal Canada (precisamente da Vancouver e Toronto, proprio nei giorni del 44esimo vertice del G7 in Québec), per un giro in Nord America con il tradizionale roadshow in compagnia delle migliori cantine nostrane – tra degustazioni per addetti ai lavori e masterclass - per spostarci poi (p...