Il settore orafo vola sui mercati esteri
Tra i mercati esteri la Svizzera si posiziona al primo posto tra gli sbocchi commerciali dei gioielli italiani. Il 2015 sarà sicuramente un anno da ricordare per il settore orafo grazie all'incremento nel fatturato del 3.8%, dovuto in particolare dall'andamento favorevole delle esportazioni. Oltre alla Svizzera ottime performance si regist...
Italian Art & Artists: Titian & Giorgione
He was not the great architect or sculptor like Michelangelo, or the inventor and scientist that was Leonardo's gift, he was just a painter who fully utilized color in his work. Titian's style did alter throughout his long life but his interest in color never diminished. His use of paint and brushwork made him the foremost painter in Venice. The Hi...
AATI-LI 2016 Dante Award & Scholarship Recipients
di Annamaria Monaco Cari colleghi ed amici, the end of the school year is fast approaching and so is the last official meeting of the AATI Long Island. On behalf of the Board, I would like to extend an invitation to the Dante Award and Scholarship Luncheon on Saturday, May 14th, 2016 at 11:30 am at Ristorante Pompei in West Hemps...
Mario's Italian Lemonade opens for the summer on May 1
It's that time of the year—Mario's Italian Lemonade is opening for the summer. The tiny establishment is a Taylor Street institution, but it's only open between May and September. Mario's serves some of the best Italian ice in the entire city, and people from across town flock to the stand for a taste of the frozen goodies. The stand boast...
Il "boss delle torte" Buddy ad Altamura per ritirare una targa onorifica
Il pasticcere italo-americano Buddy Valastro sarà ad Altamura il prossimo 20 maggio. Il Sindaco Giacinto Forte gli consegnerà in aula consiliare una targa in omaggio alle sue origini altamurane. Bartolo "Buddy" Valastro è un pasticcere e personaggio televisivo italo-americano, noto al pubblico mondiale per il suo programma di successo "Cake Boss"...
Stalla offers excellent Italian dining
It takes only one trip to Italy. When you return you realize quickly that what you thought was Italian food is in fact Italian-American food. Not that there is anything wrong with that. It is hearty, bold and delicious but just not strictly Italian. Meatballs and spaghetti? No way that's Italian. That's an Italian-American creati...
Italian American Club in Scotch Plains Celebrates 110th Anniversary
The Italian American Club in Scotch Plains marked its 110th anniversary on Saturday, June 4, with a celebration that included a former governor, two mayors, and scores of community leaders. The club is a private non-profit organization established by immigrants primarily from the small village of Montazzoli in the Abruzzi region of Italy....
How to find the perfect Agriturismo in Umbria
The picturesque region of Umbria is one of most popular destinations in Italy for a lot of reasons. It has a spectacular array of medieval towns, verdant hills (they don't call it 'The Green Heart of Italy' for nothing), and earthy, mouth-watering cuisine that often highlights seasonal, foraged specialties like mushrooms, wild asparagus, and truffl...
The Gorgeous Italian City You’ve Never Heard Of
Matera, famous for its "Sassi," is a city in the region of Basilicata located essentially where the heel of the "boot" of Italy starts. "Sassi" means rocks, but in this case we're not talking about big boulders like those of Stonehenge. Here, the Sassi—the first site in southern Italy to be taken under UNESCO's protective wing, in 1993—are two anci...
Fr. Vincent Capodanno’s Story of Heroism Being Filmed for TV
Great news! A new film is underway about the Grunt Padre —Servant of God Father Vincent Capodanno, a Medal of Honor recipient, posthumously, for his heroism on Sept. 4, 1967. That day, on a small, bloody knoll during a fierce battle with Marines greatly outnumbered by the North Vietnamese, it took more than 25 enemy bullets to stop Navy chaplain F...
Seven Tuscan white wines to discover this summer
The Italians created their classification hierarchy, the Denominazione di Origine (DOC), 50 years ago to highlight their best wines. So what was Italy's first DOC, the one the Italians most wanted to trumpet? Brunello di Montalcino or Barolo would be reasonable guesses. But no , it was Vernaccia di san Gimignano. Brunello di Montalcino became Ital...
Scenes from an Italian festival in Ocean Township
by Payton Guion The sausages sizzled and the Sizzler -- a ride that swings passengers around, narrowly avoiding collisions -- scrambled. But the real story of the 40th-annual Italian Festival here was the scorching heat. Even as the sun was setting, temperatures on Sunday held steady in the mid-90s and festival-goers flocked to any an...