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Local author and food writer Maria Desiderata Montana has a new book being released this week about San Diego's Italian community and its cuisine.   "San Diego Italian Food: A Culinary History of Little Italy and Beyond" (History Press; $19.99) tells the story of how a large Italian community developed in what became known as Little Italy. A...

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Born in the Sicilian town Ventimiglia, Biagio Settepani hoped for a career in journalism.   Now, 55 years later, the master pastry chef who owns the Pasticceria Brunos of Dongan Hills and West Brighton claims four successful bakeries in his lifetime along with a solid set of culinary honors and international accolades.   Read more &n...

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Chef and restaurateur Mario Batali has signed a deal for two cookbooks with Grand Central Life & Style, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group. The first cookbook will be written in collaboration with Washington Post writer Jim Webster, and will "look at farmers and their top products in 12 American states acr...

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WTI Magazine #5    2013 Nov, 15Author : Annalisa Lospinuso for PoisonDrops      Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti   The story of a boy coming from Voghera who has become a symbol of the Italian fashion in the world, a story narrated by those who had the chance to meet him and work with him during these years. "Valentino. Ritratto a più voci dell...

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On Sunday, Oct. 5, author Paolo Battaglia will give a presentation on his new book, "Explorers, Emigrants, Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience from the Collections of the Library of Congress" at the Lackawanna Historical Society's Catlin House, 232 Monroe Ave., Scranton. The program will begin at 2 p.m.   Battaglia...

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The Italian Cultural Institute and the American Initiative For Italian Culture present the premiere of a new publication by Bordighera Press The Mandate of Heaven (Poems of an Italian Childhood) with poems by Grace Cavalieri, with Italian translations by Sabine Pascarelli.   Grace and Sabine reads are in English and Italian. The evening feat...

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APRIL 28, 2015 (06:30 PM )Casa Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Dante and Heterodoxy.  The Temptations of 13th Century Radical Thought(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). Edited and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone. Conclusion by Teodolinda Barolini   Dante and Heterodoxy:...

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di Mauro Battocchi   Ai giovani alla ricerca di valori in cui credere nell'età di internet, San Francisco e la Silicon Valley offrono un punto di riferimento originale. Non é tanto il richiamo edonistico del denaro e del successo. Piuttosto, si tratta di un codice etico basato su ricerca dell'eccellenza nel lavoro, abnegazione, collaborazion...

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By Bill Tonelli   "The Italians of my parents' generation are held together by the notion of the family," wrote Martin Scorsese in his introduction to Italianamerican: The Scorsese Family Cookbook.* "That is why the pasta sauce is so sacred to the Italian family."   See, now right away we have a problem. Because as pretty as Scorsese'...

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WTI Magazine #76    2016 February 15Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 76th issue of our online magazine. It's February 2016, and I'm about to leave for the US, where I'll be presenting my book "We the Italians. Two flags, One heart. One hundred interviews". A few days ago I had the privilege of presentin...

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