These Are the Cheapest Times to Fly to Italy
Ready to have a sultry seaside vacation along the Amalfi Coast? A Roman holiday? Perhaps a shopping getaway to Milan? Then you better book a flight ASAP. According to the World Bank, in 2019, just shy of 100 million people traveled to Italy for a vacation. Though that number declined significantly due to the pandemic, tourism made a major comeback...
The Italian American Classic You’ve Never Heard Of
MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, especially the blocks between Bleecker and West Third, is one of the city’s greatest restaurant rows. Around 3 p.m. or so, it begins to crowd with eager diners who patronize dozens of dining establishments and honky tonk bars, and as you stand in their midst you’ll see falafels, smash burgers, banh mi, slices...
The Sicilian Jewish Legacy Dish You Need To Try
Most Americans, Jewish or not, likely don’t associate Jewish cuisine with Italy. This is the land of pasta, pesto, sauce, and cheese. The image that comes to mind is the polar opposite of the Ashkenazi Jewish fare that Americans generally think of when it comes to Jewish food. Of course, the diverse tapestry that is Jewish food stretches well beyon...
Piadina Romagnola PGI: new specification for new options
Flour, water, salt, and lard or olive oil: these are the simple ingredients that, properly kneaded, give life to Piadina Romagnola PGI, a symbolic product of Romagna. Nine years ago, the protection Consortium obtained PGI certification from the European Commission, with the goal of enhancing the product and protecting it from the risks of counterfe...
Vittori-Rocci Post sold for $2.2 million
The Vittori-Rocci Post has been sold for $2.2 million, another step in the plan to turn the veterans club into a rug store. The club sold the building on Feb. 1 to 143 Brimbal Avenue LLC, according to Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds records. The LLC was formed by Landry & Arcari Rugs and Carpeting, which plans to move its longtime Salem o...
These Ocean County, NJ Italian Restaurants are Simply Superb
If there's one thing Ocean County knows, it's Italian food. With all of the Italian heritage in Ocean County, every entree must be excellent every time. We have high standards, and rightfully so. There are the classics like eggplant parm and chicken cacciatore. Seafood served Italian style can't be beaten. Don't forget about the antipasti and appet...
Record Number Of Students Headed To Rome For Lewis University 2023 Program
For the Spring 2023 Semester, the Lasallian Universities Center for Education in Rome, Italy will serve a record 22 college students; the most students since the program began five years ago. Most students are from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois while three students are from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. The students live in...
Historical centre of Benevento, a mini tour among art and history
Many people in Benevento don't know, or maybe easily forget it, but their amazing city shows lots of its ancient beauties just under their very noses, for free (or almost). That's because the so-called City of Witches is a place full of Roman and Middle Age (and more) mindblowing sightseeings at zero cost, and as a sort of open-air museum, it can b...
At Coniglio's Old Fashioned in Morristown, pizza with a pedigree
Even if the food at Coniglio's Old Fashioned in Morristown were just OK, a trip there would be worth it for the chance to watch Nino Coniglio — a nine-time Las Vegas world pizza champ as well as a "Chopped" champion — practice his craft. "I am the real deal," he says. Fortunately, the food is fabulous. Coniglio makes his own dough — he has a wild y...
Can Tourists Please Stop Acting Like Idiots in Italy?
It’s happening again. We're only in early February, but there's already a solid contender for this year’s “Worst Actor In an Italian Tourist Role” award. In case you missed our story, an American in Florence drove his rental car across the medieval and—most importantly in this context—pedestrian-only Ponte Vecchio Bridge while looking for a parking...
Italo Calvino at 100
At a party in London recently, an Italian man asked me what I was working on. To my reply that I was writing a review of Italo Calvino’s nonfiction, he said the mere thought of reading Calvino gave him an erection. “That’s very Italian,” I thought. Italy loves its authors. Two years ago, when a German newspaper printed a column criticizing Dante, t...
ENEA develops portable laser system for food fraud detection
FoodSensor is a portable laser device based on a traffic light system developed at ENEA to rapidly detect food adulteration “Safe, simple to use even by non-expert personnel, it can be carried in a hand case. To detect food adulteration, is enough to put a small sample into the device without pre-treatment or chemical reagents”, explained Luca Fior...