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...
Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you’ve never heard of
The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered a major blow in 2014, when Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, math’s most prestigious award. An equally important blow was struck by an Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, born 300 years ago this month. Agnesi was the first woman...
Not Just Beaches: The Renaissance Spirit of Rimini
Kneeling before St. Sigismund, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta looks proud and dignified, reflecting his fame as a skilled and daring condottiero: thus Piero della Francesca portrayed him in the fresco he was asked to produce for the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, a landmark monument of this seaside city in Emilia-Romagna and the symbol of the power...
A Guide to the Radical Italian Art Movement Fashion is Fascinated By
Marking a major shift from the previous season’s geometric draping, Rick Owens’ A/W18 show saw models wearing tentacles of padded fabric that seemed ready to swallow them whole, tied together with an eerie palette of dark greys and silvers. In an unlikely reference point for a designer best known for his playful deconstruction and luxurious technic...
The taste of Italy in a cookie
In the basement of the old Saint Leo School in Little Italy, the sweet scents of cinnamon, vanilla and lemon surrounded the neighborhood ladies and other volunteers last Saturday as they made “pizzelle,” Italian waffle cookies, for the Saint Anthony Festival. Pizzelle” is plural in Italian for the cookies. (Pizzella is one cookie). The word means,...
Fun in the sun at Casa’s Italian language summer camp
If you want to send your kids to Italy this summer while keeping them close to home, Casa Italia has the summer camp for you. The camp is celebrating its 14th year. The Casa’s Italian Language & Culture Summer Camp will introduce children ages 4 to 16 to the best that Italy has to offer through drama, storytelling, arts and crafts, games, sports, d...