Fabio Grosso's 50 days as a phenomenon during Italy's 2006 World Cup win
Few people are lucky enough to enjoy one iconic moment at a World Cup - Fabio Grosso still can't believe he had two. Berlin, 2006, the World Cup final, and Italy coach Marcello Lippi must select five men for the penalty shootout. Andrea Pirlo, Marco Materazzi, Daniele De Rossi, Alessandro Del Piero and one other... Strikers Luca Toni and Vincenzo I...
Venditore By Giordano expands Italian Market produce to Rittenhouse
One of the family names that has been synonymous with the Italian Market for a hundred years is the Giordano family. At their new outpost, Venditore by Giordano, Marcello Giordano is taking the next step in the Giordano family legacy. His great grandparents came to America from Italy in 1921 and started the market, and Marcello has grown the family...
A trip to Val di Non: the beauty of Lake Tovel
The Adamello-Brenta Natural Park includes a characteristic glimpse ideal to unwind from the routine: the Lake Tovel. We know better this destination of the Val di Non. A trip to Val di Non is an opportunity to immerse yourself in nature and relax among mountain landscapes, apple orchards and enchanting places. We are in Trentino and more precisely...
Accordi Disaccordi: Hot Italian Swing
When: December 8, 2022 at 6:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles. RSVP here. Gipsy jazz Italian trio Accordi Disaccordi performs what they define as “hot Italian swing”. Their unique style is a tribute to the sounds of famous guitarist Django Reinhardt and combines jazz, swing, blues, folk influences with famo...
Italian village of the month: Pietrapertosa
Pietrapertosa is a small village in the Potenza province of Basilicata, with 1,200 residents. It is beautifully located in the Dolomiti Lucane, a mountain range that shares name and beauty with its more famous cousins, up North. Its name comes from the imponent rocky peak that welcomes everyone visiting the village: nature made a hole in it that pa...
Visiting Osteria Accademia in the Upper West Side: Learn Something New in Italian Cuisine
Every time we decide we want something new to eat, we might head for Italian. It is just our nature to do this. Even in New York. We walk in our neighborhood and usually find places to go. But sometimes we want to try something different. Not the same pizza. Of course, here in New York, it is always the same. It looks the same. It tastes the same....
Pininfarina Battista Is World's Fastest-Accelerating Road-Legal Car
Automobili Pininfarina has released performance figures for the Battista electric hyper GT, and the numbers are outstanding. In a demonstration at the Dubai Autodrome in the United Arab Emirates where the Battista made its dynamic debut in the Middle East, the all-electric hyper GT celebrated a series of world records recently achieved in the final...
Sons of Italy ~ Lodge 2561 Keeps Giving on Thanksgiving
The afternoon of November 22 started with a few members of the Morris County Lodge of the Sons of Italy arriving at Parsippany Child Day Care Center on Baldwin Road in Parsippany with a truckload of Holiday Turkey Dinners, ready to be distributed to various locations in the general Parsippany area. 18 boxes of those meals, along with assorted pies,...
Casole d'Elsa: the open-air museum in the heart of Tuscany
Between the provinces of Florence and Siena stretches the beautiful Val d'Elsa, one of the most iconic places in the Tuscan region. Crossed by the Via Francigena, the Val d'Elsa holds within its territory historical and artistic testimonies of immense value, often enclosed within the walls of medieval villages. San Gimignano, Certaldo and Monterig...
Did you know that until a century ago Italian cuisine was considered poison?
Today Italian food is a planetary myth. But it was not always so. For a long time the food of our country was considered a poor man's food, bad and unhealthy. This is said by historian Dieter Richter professor at the University of Bremen in "Con gusto. Il Grand Tour della cucina italiana," a beautiful book just released in Italy. According to the a...
A NYC butcher shop frozen in time
Just at the edge of Manhattan's Little Italy sits a butcher shop virtually frozen in time since it opened in 1923. "I joke many times, I say it's half-museum, half-butcher shop," said Jennifer Prezioso, the butcher, owner, and fourth-ever employee of Albanese Meats & Poultry. "I should charge admission because so many people come in and they're jus...
Italian American Adventures: Tripe Night with the Italian Tribune!
It’s one of the most polarizing delicacies in Italian America. Loved my many, loathed by others. But no matter how you slice it (pun intended) there is nothing quite like TRIPE…the “Queen of the Offal Meats”! And for those who can’t get enough of this oft-misunderstood treat, or even one who is interested in trying their first-ever plate of gourmet...