Italy Comes to America "Concerto Tra Amici"
October 4 (Sunday) 3:00 pmItaly Comes to America "Concerto Tra Amici"Featuring the winner, Deborah Lurato, and several other talented musicians and singers who performed on the Italian version of American Idol, called "Concerto Tra Amici"Sponsored by Il Club Italiano of Westchester Community College, in Cooperation with the Westchester Coalition of...
Italian Art and inspiration at the Union League of Philadelphia
October 10 @ 10:00 am. Philadelphia, PA 19102 The Union League 140 S. Broad Street. Join us at the Heritage Center to celebrate Italian Heritage month with Ciao Philadelphia. Tours of the League House will be offered to the public on Saturday, October 10, with a focus on Italian Art at the League. To join us: Reservations are not...
The secrets of Abruzzo’s cuisine
by Claudia Astarita Among the regions of Italy, Abruzzo is probably the one which is most loyal to its past. Nobody can deny that even today, the region's customs, heritage and culture, not to mention its cookery, are still intact, despite the onslaught of industrialization and mass tourism. This means, for example, that local foo...
La Motta’s Will Debut Next Week
By Jacqueline Cain The newest restaurant from the Aquitaine Group (Aquitaine, Cinquecento, Metropolis, Gaslight) will open next week, but you may feel like it's been here all along. La Motta's, announced over the summer, is a classic, mid-century-inspired Italian-American eatery—sausage lasagna; meatballs made with pork and beef,...
Italian American Program: preserving the Italian American Experience
by Dominic Candeloro As you might have read in the Fra Noi, our project has achieved the $500,000 mark that triggered a match by the Loyola University Chicago. I am absolutely delighted that we have launched this permanent project that will preserve and promote the history and culture of Italians in the US. We are now in phase II of the pr...
L’On. Francesca La Marca al Filitalia International Gala di Philadelphia
L'On. Francesca La Marca ha partecipato domenica 15 novembre all'annuale Filitalia International Gala, che si è svolto negli eleganti ambienti della Celebration Banquet Hall, nei pressi di Filadelfia. Il Dottor Pasquale Nestico, fondatore di Filitalia, e la Signora Rosetta Miriello, attuale Presidente, hanno intrattenuto i circa trecento ospiti, tr...
A love of onions brings two cities together
by Rita Cipalla This is the story of two cities on two continents brought together by a visionary corporate executive and a mutual love of onions. In December, if all goes according to plan, Walla Walla, Wash., famous for the sweet onion that bears its name, will sign an agreement with Cannara, a small town in central Umbria, to becom...
Spotlight on a Senior: Stephen A. Narracci
By Gail Donahue Think for a moment about how overstated sporting events, especially on the professional level, and all that surround them appear to be. There are massive crowds, cheers, jeers, screaming, injuries, controversy, and salaries equivalent to winning Powerball every year. Sports, in general, and all that goes with it do not imm...
Langone's Florist in Springfield's South End readies for reopening
By Jim Kinney South End institution Langone's Florist is getting fixed up now and will hopefully be open again in January. New operator Brian Grisel, owner of the Gilded Lilly on Wilbraham Road in Sixteen Acres and A Cut Above Florist on Memorial Drive in Chicopee, said Wednesday there was simply too much to do and too little time to...
Marcello’s opens in Metairie with Sicilian menu
by Ian McNulty An Italian restaurant that's found success in a former cabaret space downtown now has a second location on a much different stage. The new Marcello's Restaurant & Wine Bar opened in Metairie today (Jan. 18). The address was previously a location of the Mexican restaurant Coyote Blues. The design, which...
Piada CEO discusses differentiation in a competitive market
by Jonathan Maze Shortly before opening time earlier this week at Piada Italian Street Food's newest location in a Minneapolis suburb, the entire staff gathered at the front counter for a meeting. To Chris Doody, the fast-casual chain's founder and CEO, who was at a table in the dining area, the meeting illustrates one of the unseen effor...
O is for Old-School Italian
by Dan Curd No other country has had a greater impact on American taste than Italy. Even though in recent years we've been bombarded by globalization and multiculturalism, the Italian brand remains strong. Currently, modern Italian cooking is in fashion, spawning restaurants like Lombardino's, Cento and Osteria Papavero. Yet for...