Pilot's staff epicure tastes passionate, authentic Italian food
By Lorraine Eaton Antonio Caruana arrives for lunch wearing a black leather cap atop his shaved head and a Technicolor neck tattoo, and looking more like a character on "Sons of Anarchy" than one of Tidewater's hottest chefs. It's nearly noon on a weekday when we convene at 219 An American Bistro, Caruana's pick for lunch. A block...
Fiorella offers simple, handmade Italian dishes
by Tracy Schuhmacher The newest resident in the burgeoning food scene around the Rochester Public Market, Fiorella focuses on doing a few things well. The dinner menu is a handful each of starters, pastas, pizzas and entrées. The wine list is culled to three reds and three whites; a small assortment of craft beers is offered. Some...
Say Hello to Marilyn for Me – The “Yankee Clipper” Revisited
By Niccoló Graffio Since I began writing for this blog, my articles have dealt mainly with famous indigenous inhabitants of Southern Italy/Sicily. It behooves me to mention, though, since the destruction of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1861, the majority of the members of our ethnos were born outside the borders of the modern state...
Strada Italiano to hold Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve
The Feast of the Seven Fishes will be served this Christmas Eve at Strada Italiano in downtown Asheville to celebrate the Italian-American tradition and the use of seafood in the family meal as a way of abstinence from meat, a long Roman Catholic tradition during various days of the week as well as during Lent. This year's feast menu is available o...
Eni punta sull’energia solare: straordinaria scoperta di un team italo-americano
La partnership tra Eni, gigante italiano del petrolio e del gas, e il prestigiosoMit di Boston, siglata nel 2008, e il più recente accordo quadro tra lo stesso cane a sei zampe e il Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Cnr) ha sortito un risultato straordinario nel campo dell'energia solare e della sensoristica avanzata, pubblicato sulla principale...
Italian Fashion Put Under Spotlight at Milan’s Triennale
by Pia Capelli Building a map of the contemporary Italian fashion scene is not an easy task. La Triennale in Milan is endeavoring to do so with an exhibition titled "The New Vocabulary of Italian Fashion." The show's time frame starts with 1998, the year of the beginning of the Digital Era (with the birth of Google and the launch of t...
Poetry Reading by Joey Nicoletti and Gil Fagiani - Wednesday, 20 January, 6PM
by John D. Calandra Italian American Institute We are delighted to present two books of poetry. Joey Nicoletti's Reverse Graffiti (Bordighera Press, 2015) has been hailed as a collection of "powerful, heartfelt poems that bring an era to life," stated Maria Mazziotti Gillan. She continued, "Nicoletti's book ... is dotted with ima...
Mt. Washington's La Tavola Italiana a palate pleaser
by Amanda McFadden Pittsburgh is a veritable mixing bowl of ethnicities. From its foundation, the city has been populated with immigrants from Germany, Poland, Italy and others. Settling into various neighborhoods, including Bloomfield's "Little Italy," Italians have blessed the city with the carby deliciousness that is their cuisine. ...
Little Italy è un film
di Chiara Barbo A New York City vive la comunità di italoamericani più numerosa degli Stati Uniti: così esordisce la pagina Wikipedia dedicata a "Italian Americans in New York". Molti di loro, reali o immaginari che siano, abitano gli schermi cinematografici americani di tutti i tempi, a partire da quel leggendario Rudolph Valenti...
America’s 50 Best Italian Restaurants
By Dan Myers The Italian restaurant in America has changed in style probably more than any other genre of restaurant over the past several decades. Even as recently as 50 years ago, the term "Italian restaurant" conjured images of red and white checkered tablecloths, carafes of middling chianti, and a red sauce-heavy menu with classic...
Napoli Italian Market opens this week in downtown Waterville
Mayor Nick Isgro Friday pointed to a black and white photo on the wall of Napoli Italian Market. "This is my grandparents' first date," Isgro said, of the photo of his grandfather, Sam, and grandmother, Eleanor. Another photo on the wall shows Sam, who was a Waterville city councilor many years ago, with Isgro's father, Jim, when Jim was a...
Parishioners feast on St. Joseph sweets
Parishioners of St. Joseph Church have their patron saint to thank for a sweet treat they indulge in just once a year. That would be zeppole, the rich Italian pastry churchgoers enjoyed Sunday in observance of St. Joseph's Feast Day, which occurred at the spring equinox on Saturday. Along with fathers, workers, the Archdiocese of Hartford and...