A Taste of Italy: teaching Italian culture, cuisine and wine to a new generation of chefs
How a perfect night looks like when you are an Italian food lover? The answer could come from people who attended the Taste Of Italy event, organized by the International Culinary Center at the Airbnb HQ in San Francisco on May 11th, with the purpose of celebrating Italy’s culture, cuisine, and wines with some special guests and cooks. Not only is...
FremantleMedia North America to Bring Michelangelo to Hulu with Award-Winning Writer Richard Mason
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has announced a first-look deal with Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment. Under the pact, Landscape Entertainment will develop and produce scripted projects for the U.S. and international markets. The first project in development through this new partnership is a scripted drama centered on Michelangelo, written...
Ada Rovatti
When: Monday, June 25, 2018 From 6:30 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York - Organized by : ICI - Entrance : Free Ada Rovatti in in concert (sax) with Jill McCarron (piano) and Daryl Johns double bass Italian native Ada Rovatti started playing saxophone in high school after years of classical piano training. After winning a...
Why Italy's Volcanoes Matter To Its Wines
"Volcanic wine. What the he*l is that?" Late in March, wine writer John Szabo, MS — author of Volcanic Wines: Salt, Grit and Power which won a 2016 André Simon Food and Drink Book Award — was in Manhattan to host his 1st Annual International Volcanic Wines Conference and, on his way up to give the morning's welcome presentation, sharing an elevator...
Final results of Italian Film Festival USA
Magnifico! It’s one of the words that has been used to describe this year’s edition of the Italian Film Festival USA of Metro Detroit. “This was an incredibly successful edition,” said Enzo Paglia of Washington and a member of the committee that organizes Detroit’s version of the annual film festival that began in St. Louis in 2004 and currently ha...
Emilia-Romagna in Italy, Spain's Cantabria and DUNDEE are among Lonely Planet's top 10 places to visit in Europe in 2018
The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna is the best place to visit in Europe for 2018, according to a prestigious travel guide. It saw off competition from destinations across Spain including Cantabria which came second, the UK, France and Greece to top Lonely Planet's Best in Europe list for 2018. And a surprising entry on the list is Scottish city o...
Eataly to terminate relationship with chef Mario Batali amid sexual misconduct allegations
After sexual misconduct allegations against Mario Batali emerged Sunday night on “60 Minutes,” Eataly confirmed Monday that Batali has had no direct involvement with the Italian market and food hall since December 2017 and that the company is in the process of a full separation from the chef. “We have initiated a process to compel the divestiture o...
Greased Pole Climbing and Cannoli: Our Favorite Photos From the Italian Market Festival
The South 9th Street Italian Market Festival returned in all its glory this past Saturday and Sunday. Festival-goers stuffed their faces with the city’s finest cannoli, ravioli and Mexican mango flowers while watching groups of people with Crisco clumps in their hair grunt and grimace as they climb atop each other to scale a 30-foot greased pole to...
Keep Italian at New Britain High School (CT)
Sign this petition to tell New Britain School District to keep the Italian Language and Culture Program at the High School (NBHS)! Recently, the school district decided to eliminate Italian as one of the languages that students can choose to study at NBHS. We believe that this is the wrong decision for many reasons. The Italian program at NBHS is...
Matilda Cuomo To Receive Savoy Foundation's 2018 Chivalry Award
The American Foundation of Savoy Orders will present the Foundation’s 2018 Chivalry Award to Mrs. Matilda Raffa Cuomo, in recognition of her outstanding leadership in education and mentoring and lifelong dedication to public service. As the wife of the late former Governor of New York State, Hon. Mario Cuomo, and as the mother of the current New Yo...
Italian Pottery Outlet’s Ceramic Feast
“It’s just a feast,” says Adele Spalluto Hubbard as she reflects on her family’s personally vetted retail collection of handmade, hand-painted Italian ceramics. “They are exactly like a painting, hand done with a brush, painstakingly made with love, and that’s the charm.” Thirty-five years ago, her father, Ben Spalluto, an Italian immigrant, starte...
Appetite: Mia’s Adds American-Italian Flair to King Street
Half a year after the closure of European transplant Carluccio’s, there’s a new bustle of activity down on the 100 block of King Street. The smells of Italian food waft through the door anew, thanks in large part to the showpiece pizza oven now taking up residence near the restaurant’s entrance, adjacent to a eat-in counter where several patrons ar...