10 Culinary Sins According To Proper Italian Chefs
10. Thou shalt not add oil to pasta water. This throws off the balance of cooking the pasta. A delicious pasta water should be as salty as the Mediterranean, not oily. Oil is only to be added to pasta after it's been cooked and drained, and, even then, it acts more as a dressing–think pasta salad–rather than non-sticking agent. 9. T...
'The Godfather' to play at Maritime Aquarium
By Jeff Eydt Winfield Street Italian Deli will be giving Norwalk an offer it can't refuse when they hold a viewing of The Godfather at the Maritime Aquarium's IMAX theater, located at 10 N. Water St., on March 19. Proceeds will be going to the Maritime Aquarium and the Italian-American Police Society of Southern Connecticut. "The Italian-...
See a map of the Italian-American Marching Club's new St. Joseph's Day parade route
The Italian-American Marching Club will alter its St. Joseph's Day parade route slightly when it heads out for its annual parade March 19. Construction along its planned route has forced a small change that results in the parade beginning at the corner of Decatur and Canal streets. The rest of the route will follow its usual path through t...
Legit Italian: Can you identify these 13 pasta shapes?
So, Siri tells me that Marco Polo did NOT bring pasta back to Italy from China. In fact, pasta was invented by Italians and has long been a symbol of their pride in the culinary world. Since then, over 400 types of unique pasta have been made throughout time, and here on The Rock, we certainly have an affinity for a select few that are a s...
Italy comes in third as robotics’ supplier to the US market, and strives to gain more
In Illinois, which alone is worth a third of Italian GDP, the number one imported product from Italy is this: machinery. And it is not by chance, the ICE-Italian Trade Agency joint mission, Ucimu-Sistemiper produrre, the Ministry of Economic Development and Confindustria chose Chicago, the key manufacturing hub of the United States, in order to ill...
Più la calpesti, più genera energia. È sarda la mattonella (SEF) amica dell’ambiente
Immaginate di creare energia attraverso una semplice pressione esercitata dai piedi su un pavimento. Questa è l'idea rivoluzionaria che due ingegneri sardi, Alessio Calcagni e Simone Mastrogiacomo, hanno sviluppato con Smart Energy Floor. Un prodotto sviluppato dalla loro giovane startup, Veranu, dopo la laurea in ingegneria elettronica al...
Film screening: The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life
When: Thursday, May 12, 2016 – 5:30 pm – 7:05 pmWhere: Museum of Fine Arts Boston – Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161), 465 Huntington Ave., Boston MA The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life by Emanuela Giordano (Italy/France, 2015, 54 min.). Italian & French with English subtitles. The rich story of the Jews of Veni...
AIAE, come promuovere l’Italia insegnandola in America
By Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino Che emozione che si prova nel trascorrere la festa del lavoro insieme a colleghi per il Gala dell'AIAE, l'organizzazione che raggruppa tutti quei professionisti italiani in America che, oltre alle loro varie attività, si dedicano all'insegnamento e alla diffusione della lingua e cultura italiana. Sono f...
NJIHC Collodi Award Presentation
On Friday April 29th, the New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission presented Frank Campione with the Commission's Collodi award. The award recognizes a New Jersey educator who has done an exceptional job at integrating Italian and Italian American material into the classrom by drawing upon lessons from the NJIHC Universality of Italian Heritage Curri...
The most mind-blowing theater this June is in New Jersey
By David Cote As reported earlier this month, there will be a surprising number of experimental and refreshingly offbeat plays to choose from this summer. That makes me happy—especially since I'll have the chance to catch up on shows I missed the first time around, such as Small Mouth Sounds and Men on Boats. But there's weird, an...
Diventa sponsor A.N.P.S. - USA e contribuisci a portare la famosa LAMBORGHINI HURACAN LP 610-4 della Polizia Italiana a New York per il Columbus Day 2016
L'Associazione Nazionale della Polizia di Stato sezione USA, ha avuto l'approvazione per portare a New York in occasione del prossimo Columbus Day 2016 la famosa Lamborghini Huracan, superstar delle autovetture in dotazione alla Polizia Italiana. L'auto dovrà volare nella Grande Mela scortata da quattro poliziotti in divisa, che la seguiranno...
Italian Invasion: New Exhibition in Chelsea Market Explores Food and Fashion
Chelsea Market may seem like a strange place to hold a fashion exhibition. But to Stefano Dominella—co-curator of L'Eleganza del Cibo, an exhibition exploring the relationship between fashion and food—it is the strangeness that makes it the perfect place. "It's transgressive, it's cutting-edge," he said. Open for a mere 11 days—starting fr...