Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, cugino ed erede di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, autore del capolavoro italiano Il gattopardo ha presentato la biografia Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa A Biography Through Images (Alma Books, 2013) lo scorso febbraio 19 alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU, in conversazione con Antonio Monda.   La biografia, che parte...

When: Monday, August 4, 2014 — 6 to 7:30 p.m.Where: East Boston Public Library, 265 Bremen Street, East Boston, MA East Boston native Lisa Cappuccio will present her new book "Where's Marianna? Aundi è Marianna?", a book for the entire family, showing a glimpse of life in an Italian immigrant household, while acknowledging the responsibilities, lo...

Most people, and rightly so, would have thought pepperoni was born in Italy. Although it is hard to say exactly when it was created, it probably popped up in the early 1900s when Italian butcher shops and pizzerias began to flourish on the streets of a burgeoning Italian-American society. Notes food writer and historian John Mariani, who wrote a b...

Noi, gli italiani. Noi, il popolo che affascina tutto il resto del mondo con la propria storia millenaria. Noi, una presenza importante nel territorio statunitense che negli anni è cresciuta e sta crescendo, apportando a questo continente un valore sociale, economico e culturale. È l'amore per entrambe le terre che ha mosso Umberto Mucci a fondare...

Join 2015 NOIAW DC Region Wise Woman Honoree Amy Riolo for a special presentation and book signing. Amy is an award-winning author, chef, television personality, cuisine and culture expert, and Mediterranean diet advocate.   Amy will discuss the various health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. Recent studies show that people who follow a M...

WHEN: Saturday, SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 @ 5:45 PM WHERE: @ Cornelia St. Café @ 29 Cornelia St. off Bleeker WHO: Nancy Caronia is a Lecturer in the Honors Program at University of Rhode Island, where she teaches contemporary literature, composition, and creative writing. Caronia's creative writing has most recently appeared in Animal, New Delta Review,...

di Claudia Cecconato   Forse non tutti conoscono la storia dei Buffalo Soldiers. Una divisione dell'esercito USA, formata da soldati neri americani con a capo un comandante bianco, razzista. Come gli altri Alleati i Buffalo combatterono al fianco dei partigiani per liberare l'Italia dal nazifascismo.   In particolare quella parte del...

Sicily, 1935: Sarina, a young woman with three children, gives up her young daughter Tina to her aunt Vittoria, who lives in a different town, with no apparent explanation. The child, just four, at first is intrigued by the move, which she believes to be a summer vacation, but slowly reality settles in and her journey into abandonment begins. &nbs...

The Edith Wheeler Memorial Library will host a free talk by Anthony Riccio, author of Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut, on Saturday, March 14, from 1 to 2 p.m., in the library’s Ehlers Meeting Room.   Riccio’s presentation will focus on the roles of Italian-American women who, after immigrating from south...

Nicholas Caggiano, commissioner of the Delaware Commission on Italian Heritage and Culture, and Maria Teresa Morrison, representative of both the commission and UNICO, donated copies of a book on recovered Italian art to Cape Henlopen High School's Italian students and to the main CHHS library.   The book is a catalog of art that was exhibit...