Food, Prosecco and good company: The enduring allure of Italy’s Veneto countryside
by Nathalie Atkinson The winding streets of Treviso are dotted with little taverns outfitted with wooden stools, plaid tableclothes and small plates of simple bites called cicchetti. The Venetian take on finger food includes standards like breaded and flash-fried zucchini flowers or a dollop of dried salted cod that's been slowly emulsifie...
Apennines trip: Following my father's escape from an Italian prisoner of war camp
by Gerard Gilbert On the morning of 9 September 1943, my father and 500 other mainly British officers stepped through a hole obligingly cut in the barbed wire fence by their former captors at Fontanellato prisoner-of-war camp, near Parma in northern Italy. Their hosts, having deposed Mussolini two months earlier, had signed an arm...
Philly friends of Italy, on a big boat
by Joseph N. DiStefano Andrea Canepari, Italy's gently polished, vastly energetic and partly Penn-educated Consul-General in Philadelphia, held a kick-off party Sunday for the city's prominenti i patroni in honor of Ciao! Philadelphia, the month-long abbondanza of Italian cultural events -- schedule here. It was a gray windy day f...
Columbus Statue Relocation to Marquette Park Project – Donate once get a lifetime of recognition!
Any donation amount is appreciated and will help. We are making great progress. Only $6,300 to go. Now is the time to ensure that your name is on the monument. What an opportunity to leave a lasting legacy for your family. The UNICO Memphis Chapter Foundation (UMCF) (an IRS recognized 501c3) is now accepting tax deductible donations to relocate the...
Five Hidden Streets to Walk in Rome
by Erica Firpo For millennia, Rome's streets and piazzas have been walked and then some—the focal point of the ancient empire's transit network, there's a reason we have the saying, "all roads lead to Rome." As the third most visited city in the EU (after Paris and London), it can seem there are few areas left to be discovered, but if you...
Pizza party for kids!
WED, NOV 11, 2015 AT 12:00 PM: Pizza party for kids!Eataly, 43 East Ohio Street Chicago, IL 60611By: Scuola Italiana Enrico Fermi - FREE REGISTER Join the Scuola Italiana Enrico Fermi and Eataly for a interactive pizza making lesson: make your own pizza to take home, then lunch on tasty pizza from Rossopomodoro and have a nutella pizza f...
Saputo nella Hall of fame americana È tra i big insieme a Marciano e Di Maggio
Un posto d'onore tra gli italoamericani che hanno fatto la storia dello sport: il chairman rossoblù Joey Saputo è stato inserito nella National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame nell'ambito di una cerimonia che si è svolta all'Intercontinental Hotel di Chicago. Il numero uno del club rossoblù fa parte della classe del 2015 insieme ad al...
“Non essere cattivo” conquista l’America
di Elena Spadiliero Non essere cattivo, opera postuma di Claudio Caligari, è piaciuta al pubblico statunitense (addirittura è stato lodato dall'ex star del porno, Sasha Grey, che ha condiviso la foto degli attori protagonisti con Valerio Mastandrea sui suoi canali social). Presentato in occasione dello scorso Cinema Italian Style...
La Rana Rossa Pizzeria Coming to Jamaica Plain
by Dana Hatic The frog family is expanding: Brad Brown of The Blue Frog Bakery has plans to open La Rana Rossa Pizzeria in the old Cafe Bartlett Square space, according to Jamaica Plain News. The name of the pizza place means "the red frog" in Italian, and will be a full-blown expansion of Brown's pop-up pizza concept he has debuted at the...
Italiese, la nostra bella lingua di 'Merica!
by Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino "Io la storia di Antonio Bevilacqua vorrei raccontarla così, senza partire dall'inizio, tuttavia non so se sia il caso di cominciare proprio dalla morte. Il fatto è che vorrei iniziare da un finale. La vita di un uomo è costellata di finali e quello della morte è solo uno dei tanti". Citazione parte dell'inci...
Congratulations to NIAF member Cav. John Scarpati
Congratulations to NIAF member Cav. John Scarpati for his community efforts, which restored the Christopher Columbus statue in Mercer County, Hamilton, N.J. The statue, that for many in the local Italian American community stood as a reminder of Italian culture, had recently been vandalized. Scarpati and the Mercer County Italian-American...
Nando Milano brings Italian food Downtown
By Jessica Hammie Downtown Champaign's newest restaurant is Nando Milano Trattoria. This is the second location for the restaurant — the first is in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood — and currently the only exclusively Italian fine dining establishment in Downtown Champaign. The restaurant is lovely. The remodel and build out of...