Il Centro di Cultura Italiana a Houston guarda la Sicilia
Tiziana Ciacciofera Triolo è una palermitana doc trasferitasi oltreoceano tre anni fa portandosi dietro un ricco bagaglio di esperienza nel settore del management e delle pubbliche relazioni, anche se una delle sue più grandi passioni, è l'amore per la cultura e le tradizioni Italiane. Oggi Tiziana vive a Houston, nel Texas dove dirige la...
Stare in Silicon Valley è un master continuo. La Nuova Italia che Avanza: Hyperfair
Oggi parliamo di Hyperfair, startup che realizza fiere virtuali online sfruttando la tecnologia 3D. La startup, fondata da Marco Campanari e Max Bonfanti, è in questi giorni sugli scudi per avere appena annunciato un round di finanziamento di 1,2 milioni di dollari. L'investimento (cui hanno partecipato anche Atlante Ventures, il fondo di...
Zibibbo restaurant shutters after 17 years in downtown Palo Alto
Longtime Palo Alto restaurant Zibibbo has shuttered after 17 years, owner Rowena Wu confirmed Wednesday. "Zibibbo has closed for good," she said, refusing to comment further. Jose Sandoval, a San Jose resident who's been a cook at the restaurant for five years, said he was told last Friday that the restaurant was closing. He said the rest...
Matthew Accarrino among Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs
Chef Matthew Accarrino has just been named one of the Food & Wine's Best New Chefs of 2014. Born in St. Louis and raised in New Jersey, this American celebrity with undeniable Italian origins is used to say that when he was a child, his dream was becoming a professional cyclist. However, when a tumour in his leg forced him to change hi...
Simone Cinotto Lecture and Book Signing
Author and scholar Dr. Simone Cinotto will deliver a lecture and sign copies of his new book, The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City at Drexel University's Center for Hospitality and Sport Management on Monday, May 12 at 5pm. In his talk, Cinotto will discuss how food was at the center of the lives of immi...
NK's Dolan Wins Award for Italian Study
Erin Dolan, a senior from North Kingstown and student at Bay View Academy, earned the Rhode Island Teachers of Italian 2014 Advisory Board Monetary Award for Italian IV, with a cash prize of $300. This is award is given every year to only one Italian IV or V student and is chosen based on student submitted essays on the topic, "How will th...
Italian physician finds water on Saturn’s moon
Under the surface of Encelado, one of the smallest moons of Saturn, Luciano Iess and his team found evidence of an extended layer of water. "It is reasonable to think that the hidden ocean is a potential environment for life", explains prof. Iess, who for the past twenty years has been teaching Aerospace Engineering at University La Sapien...
Discanto in concert at the Philadelphia museum of art
DisCanto is a group of Italian conservatory-trained musicians who reinterpret traditional Abruzzese and ethnic southern Italian songs through contemporary and traditional instrumentation. Sung in dialect, the songs evoke the Apennine Mountains, which have defined Abruzzo's culture, and cover historical themes of celebration, mourning, and...
Coming to America - Pasquini
With an unbridled determination and little grasp of the English language, the equivalent of a fourth-grade education and $30, three Pasquini brothers — Domenico, Antonio and Ludwig, all in their teens — left their native Sassoferrato, Italy, in 1917 to discover a better way of life: The American Dream in a land of opportunity. Their voyage...
Italian restaurant Le Nonne Hawaii closes less than a year after opening
The Italian restaurant Le Nonne Hawaii closed less than a year after opening in the Kapolei Marketplace.Cindy Lau, the manager of Kapolei Marketplace, said the couple is working on selling the space to a new restaurant. Chef Pier Antonio Micheli opened Le Nonne Hawaii with his wife, Stephanie Micheli, in July 2013. Micheli told PBN he wanted to br...
Salt Lake is HIS city
Born in Italy, trained in Sardinia, London, Paris, Nairobi and New York, restaurateur Valter Nassi came to Salt Lake City 16 years ago to open an upscale Tuscan eatery that through no fault of his own barely lasted a year. After that, he did something absolutely and totally unexpected ... ... he stayed. The world was his oyster on the ha...
How Real Is the Looming Nutella Shortage?
How real is the reported threat to Nutella hazelnut spread? According to the Financial Times, there was poor weather in Turkey, where approximately 70 percent of the world's hazelnuts originate. But Somerset, New Jersey-based Ferrero USA, the company that makes and distributes the sweet stuff for its Italian parent company, says fans have no n...