Corona D’Italia meeting recap
Corona D’Italia Lodge 807 held its monthly meeting at 5 p.m. April 11 at Pizza Joe’s. Officers Lois DiFrischia, Patty Regna and Mary Jane Folino served the luncheon. Regna gave the invocation. President Clemmy Sirimarco conducted the business session. Financial reports were recorded by treasurer Louise Vitullo and Sirimarco presented them. April fu...
Piemonte: the Land of Slow Food
Renato Sardo will present an illustrated lecture on the beautiful region of Piemonte and its famous Slow Food movement, with wine-and-cheese pairings. Learn the very Piemontese story of Slow Food, a grassroots organization founded in 1986 to oppose the opening of a MacDonald’s near the Spanish Steps in Rome, which has grown into a global movement t...
Check out this antique Italian gondola near Las Vegas' faux canals
Gondolas don't last long, which is why vintage ones are scarce. Travelers can see one of the world's oldest and intact Venetian gondolas in Las Vegas, not Italy. Through the summer season, the gondola, believed to have been built around 1850, is displayed in the waterfall atrium at sister properties The Venetian and The Palazzo. The vessel, w...
Italian Wine Aims to Up Its Game in the United States
American wine lovers don’t need to be told that Italy produces some of the world’s great wines. But Italian vintners believe they can improve sales in the world’s largest wine market and have launched an aggressive marketing push. It’s an ambitious drive aimed at elevating the image of Italian wine with U.S. consumers and wine professionals. “It’s...
Artemest, Champion of Italian Artisans, Is Changing The Marketplace
Artisans in Italy have a found a champion of their art and craft through Artemest. This is the luxury e-commerce site that aims to promote a network of independent artists and craftsmen whose techniques date back to centuries to a global marketplace in the hopes to keep their business and know-how alive. Artemest was founded by jewelery designer Ip...
Pasta fundraiser at Italian American Sports Club helps charities
Food and friendship. That's the connection at the annual Pasta Fundraiser hosted by the Italian American Sports Club. The Italian American organization met its fundraising goal of $10,000 with more than 400 people attending the event Sunday. The money is used to help local charities, including Hope Hall School, said club secretary Joe Larizza. Foun...
An Italian Restaurant From Woburn Will Expand to Boston’s North End
Woburn-based Italian restaurant Tre Monte is planning to expand to Boston’s North End, reports Boston Restaurant Talk, taking over the Limoncello 2 space at 76 Salem St. Tre Monte’s owner and chef, Antony Contarino, confirmed the news to Eater, as did a representative for Limoncello 2. Limoncello 2, which opened under a year ago, thanked its custom...
Aqua Mirabilis, the Italian scent that changed perfumery
The glossy, celebrity-filled cologne counters of modern shopping malls hide a fascinating, if odd history. Today’s fragrances offer heady punches of patchouli, sweet vanilla, amber and candy floss, but their ancient counterparts called for deer musk, the anal secretions of cats and even whale grease. Phew! It took centuries before perfume became th...
Italy's TeMa building North American base in West Virginia
Italian building products manufacturer TeMa Technologies & Materials srl has started construction of a 42,000-square-foot facility in Kearneysville, W.Va., where it will produce insulation and drainage products from recycled plastics. The automated plant will employ 30 and operate around-the-clock. Vittorio Veneto, Italy-based TeMa is investing abo...
Archdiocese of Portland families grow farm, produce businesses from their Italian roots
One of Jim Siri’s first memories was as a 5-year-old, riding a plow horse as his father worked the field on the family farm. Now at 65, Siri is still working the farm, along with his own sons. The Siri family is part of a continuous story of Italian family farmers, produce wholesalers and retailers that have fed Oregonians and supported their Catho...
A little bit of Italy in Carefree
It’s not uncommon to see red and green in Carefree in December for Christmas, but the colors of the Italian flag were in abundance on Saturday and Sunday April 14 and 15 as the Italian Festival came to Carefree. Carefree has the most Italian restaurants per capita than anywhere else in Arizona so an Italian Festival was a perfect fit for the town....
American Academy in Rome Names Rome Prize Winners
The American Academy in Rome has announced 29 winners of its annual Rome Prize, for which honorees receive a stipend, work space, and room and board for five months to two years at the Academy’s 11-acre campus, in Rome, to pursue their individual research or area of study. Considered one of the most prestigious awards given to artists and scholars,...