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by Tim Carman   Nathan Anda decided years ago that he wanted the Red Apron in Penn Quarter to focus on tigelles, the flatbread common to the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, where locals slice open the muffin-like rounds and fill them with a lard-heavy pesto. What Anda didn't realize is that he would need those many months of R&D to devel...

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The festival dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi, one of the most famous Italian composers and the most celebrated opera composer of all time, returns from October 10th to November 4th.   The new edition of the Verdi Festival this year takes place in Parma and Busseto, Verdi's countries par excellence, with a series of musical, opera and dance event...

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di Riccardo Chioni   È partito dalla Big Apple il tour a stelle e strisce intitolato "A Taste of Italy" che prevede altre tappe a Washington e Los Angeles per celebrare il 2013 Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, sponsorizzato da sette nomi eccellenti del cibo e vino.   Dopo la spettacolare cena preparata al International C...

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by Giorgio dell'Orefice   Italy's central region of Emilia-Romagna has set itself an ambitious goal: restyling its appellations and identifying four major wine-producing areas. Together, regional authorities and the Enoteca Regionale are working to reposition the region's labels so as to enhance the role of fine wine and food as a sig...

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by Jess Fleming   While doing research for "The Splendid Table's" 20th anniversary, I acquired a copy of Lynne Rossetto Kasper's cookbook by the same name, published in 1992, a few years before the radio show began.   The book is as much a cookbook as it is a love letter to Emilia-Romagna, a region in northern Italy that is responsibl...

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Emilia-Romagna's proud gastronomic traditions have been depicted in artwork and lauded in written accounts dating back to the Middle Ages, and visitors from around the globe continue to pour in for a taste of the action. A week spent prowling the cities of Bologna, Parma, Modena and Ferrara – set amidst the bountiful farmlands between the Apennine...

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"Via da noi - Italiani ma in America" è il titolo del libro di Elena Attala Perazzini che è stato presentato lo scorso 4 ottobre alla libreria Coop del Centro Leonardo di Imola. In 400 pagine vengono raccontate dodici storie di chi ha deciso di partire seguendo l'impulso universale che spinge a cercare "altro" altrove, a non accontentarsi o a non r...

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The temporary export manager project announced last month by the Ministry of Economic Development Federica Guidi is ready to take off. By mid-April, a public recruitment will be launched with the objective of bringing foreign market experts to work at 2,500 Italian companies.   This project is part of the extraordinary plan to re-laun...

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by Luca Orlando   In 2014, the total consumption of ceramic tiles in the US showed a 0.5% increase to 231.4 million square meters, after the previous year's 12.9% leap. "In terms of value, having reached $3 billion in turnover gives ceramics a central role in the US flooring market,"explains Confindustria Ceramica president, Vittorio Bo...

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Il vino dell'estate nella Grande Mela? Per i newyorkesi che non vogliono rinunciare al rosso neanche con il caldo, la scelta ideale è il frizzante lambrusco emiliano, che sta vivendo una nuova giovinezza anche in Usa. A dirlo, come riferisce il portale on line winenews.it, è il wine writer del New York Times Eric Asimov, che ha titolato il suo ult...

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