Learning Italian: more than a language
Empoli native Enrico Cecconi, coordinator of Italian language studies at University of Bath, UK, and my former Italian professor at Accademia Europea di Firenze, expressed this pride in Italian to me. “Speaking Italian is more than the pleasure of producing beautiful and musical sounds or using gestures and more than just a linguistic skill. It has...
Meet Chef Alessio Vullo of Nando Milano
Alessio Vullo, the executive chef at Nando Milano, was needless of introduction. Having never seen the man, I caught him walking by the kitchen door in his dark chef coat abound by an air of comfort and work. "That’s the chef," I thought. In the past year, Nando Milano has become the first place I’d recommend to visiting gourmands who look for goo...
IAP 83: What Your Blood Tells You – Mickela Mallozzi on Using DNA Testing to Travel to Ancestral Countries
In this episode of the Italian American Podcast, we welcome back our good friend Mickela Mallozzi, four-time Emmy® Award-winning Host and Executive Producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, through which she travels around the world and learns the dances of different regions. In this episode, we talk about the importance of DNA testing and herit...
Introduction to U.S. Tax Reporting Requirements Concerning Ownership or Inheritance of Italian Assets
Thursday 7 February 2019, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Italian Cultural Center in Minneapolis, 528 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403. Register Here. Member: FREE. Non member: $10.00. If you own or inherited Italian assets (such as bank accounts, investment accounts, paintings, real estate and other non-business assets), you should be aware of various U.S....
White Bull Owner Bringing Italian Eatery Grana to Piedmont Heights
Chef Pasquale “Pat” Pascarella is planning an Italian eatery called Grana for the Piedmont Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, according to a press release Thursday. Grana will specialize in wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas, housemade pasta, "authentic Italian specialties" and more. The casual Italian eatery is slated to open in mid-2019, at 1835 Piedmont...
Carnevale Veneziano 2019 in St. Louis
Saturday, February 23, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM (CST). Mad Art Gallery, 2727 South 12th Street, St. Louis, MO 63118. You are cordially invited to the Italian Community of St Louis' second annual CARNEVALE VENEZIANO. Together with the St Louis - Bologna Sister Cities Organization, our clubs Italiano Per Piacere and Giovani Italiani Saint Louis,...
Turismo in Italia: il futuro è digitale
Nel 2018 il mercato dei Viaggi in Italia - che considera sia gli acquisti degli italiani nel nostro Paese o all’estero, sia quelli dei turisti stranieri in Italia – vale 58,3 miliardi di euro, con un incremento del 2% rispetto al 2017. La crescita è generata principalmente proprio dalla componente digitale che, con un valore complessivo di quasi 14...
Local New Yorker serves up authentic Italian cuisine on the First Coast
He's a self-taught business owner who went from IT to mastering the art of serving up delicious Italian recipes. Once you step inside his pizza joint, you’ll quickly realize where Tony Desimone is from. For the past 15 years, he’s made it his mission to bring a sense of New York style and flavor right here to the First Coast. "I started out doing I...
Notre Dame president defends covering Columbus murals
The president of Notre Dame, the Rev. John Jenkins, told Fox News on Thursday that his decision to cover campus murals depicting Christopher Columbus wasn't intended to conceal anything. Rather, he said, the goal was to tell “the full story.” Speaking to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, Jenkins explained his decision to cover 12 murals in the school's i...
Candice Guardino finds inspiration from family for ‘Italian Bred’
Comedian Candice Guardino has been using the eccentricities of her family members and the dynamics of the Italian-American experience for inspiration on the stage. She performs impressions of everyone from her father to her grandmother, all done tongue in cheek and with a love for her relatives, her culture and her upbringing in Staten Island, New...
Tony & Elaine’s is all about Italian favorites
If you're looking for a great Italian dinner in Boston, there's no better neighborhood to explore than the North End. Thanks to its large Italian American population and collection of amazing Italian restaurants, the area is clearly deserving of its Little Italy title. Now, Tony & Elaine's hopes to become a new North End favorite by focusing on the...
Playing with the bambinos
If you’ve never heard of it, Reggio Emilia might sound like a brand of Italian wine. And as you might suspect, it does refer to a place in Italy. But it also refers to a philosophy of working with young children that was developed after World War II in the villages around Reggio Emilia, Italy. One of its foundational concepts is “the hundred langua...