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by Casey Weldon   A Mason pizzeria is hoping for a boost in business after it receives its 60 minutes of fame during an upcoming national TV broadcast. The Food Network show " Restaurant Impossible " is featuring Aponte's Pizzeria in its Season 6 finale Sunday evening.   In the episode, Chef Robert Irvine travels to the eatery at...

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by Rossella Rago   Dear Friends, it gives me great plesure to announce that you can now enjoy all the Cooking with Nonna shows on your TV. We have just launched the Cooking with Nonna Channel on the following OTT TV platforms so that you can enjoy all the past shows as well as all the new shows in the comfort of your living room. S...

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Is it us, or does Palermo, N.D., look A LOT like Old Town Kern? Seriously. Watch the Fiat "Gran Finale" television commercial (which can be viewed online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F82hH65LHic).   About two-thirds the way through the commercial there's an image of what appears to be the old Southern Pacific Station on Sumner...

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by Shari Puterman   From a mobster on HBO to a "sausage king" on ABC Family, Steve Schirripa has seen it all. But at the core of it, the "Sopranos" star has deep Jersey Italian roots. Schirripa's sister has been a longtime school bus driver in Hazlet, where she continues to reside today.   His mother lived in a Shrewsbury nu...

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Tra i diversi aspetti che caratterizzano l'esperienza italoamericana, come ci hanno detto alcuni nostri precedenti ospiti, c'è (sin dall'inizio) il problema delle discriminazioni e degli stereotipi. E' un problema che divide fortemente la comunità: perché c'è chi lo combatte con grande forza, e chi ritiene che al contrario bisognerebbe evitare di p...

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by Bill Ervolino   5 p.m. Saturday, NJTV; 6:30 p.m. Saturday, WNET/Channel 13 Does the world really need another television show about Italian food?   Chef and lifelong New Jersey resident Vic Rallo believes it does. Rallo, who grew up in Franklin Lakes — his parents owned the celebrated Molly's Fish Market (now Portobello) in Oaklan...

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by Elaine Glusac   For the past 12 years, Kathy McCabe has written and published Dream of Italy, a subscription newsletter devoted to travel in Italy. Her infatuation with the country began with her first trip there in 1995 to visit Castelvetere sul Calore, home of her maternal ancestors near Naples.   The town was full of families be...

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Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation. Who says there's nothing good on TV?Italians have know it for a while, ever since Detective Montalbano hit their airwaves.We are in luck: MHz Networks is releasing four more episodes of the Italian mystery series on DVD.Benissimo! Montalbano solves crimes in the small fictional Southern Italy city of...

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ABC News President Ben Sherwood sent the following note to the news division this morning announcing that Mara Schiavocampo is joining ABC News as a New York-based correspondent. I'm thrilled to announce that Mara Schiavocampo is joining ABC News as a New York-based correspondent reporting for all platforms.   Read more   Source:&nbs...

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MSNBC political commentator and "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd today acceded to a request from the Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition and UNICO National and made a public apology for comments he made on October 21st on the air during the "Morning Joe" show on MSNBC which stereotyped Italian Americans.   During the October 21st Broadcast...

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