Buitoni, 350 pizze al minuto con i robot spargisugo e 50 milioni dalla Nestlé
«Il Robot Spargisugo è un’innovazione unica nel panorama europeo e grazie a un braccio meccanico e a un sistema di visione ottica, calcola esattamente il centro del disco di pasta e con un movimento rotatorio, che si ispira al gesto del pizzaiolo distribuisce uniformemente il pomodoro». Giuseppe Esposito, responsabile Ricerca e Sviluppo dello stabi...
Five Questions for: Alvise Casellati Music director of “Opera Italiana is in the Air”
Alvise Casellati is president and music director of “Opera Italiana is in the Air,” a new concept for free, outdoor opera concerts in select U.S. cities. With the series underway in New York’s Central Park, Casellati is bringing a performance to Miami’s Regatta Park this April, casting Miami professionals in plumb first roles. The repertoire will f...
Ekmeles singers find the physical beauty in Sciarrino’s spectral music
It can be hard sometimes to discern the actual qualities of the singing in modern and contemporary vocal music. The concept of the voice as a pure instrument and not a means for delivering a song — combined with avant-garde and extended techniques that carry the music farther into abstraction — will obscure how well a singer, you know, sings. As in...
Italian Lab Open Day - February 13th 2019
The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce is getting ready for the, “Italian Lab Open Day” on Wednesday, February 13th at ourIACC office, located on 999 Brickell Avenue, Miami. Members, friends, and business professionals are all invited to come and learn about our new Italian Lab services and opportunities, discover the 2019 event calendar and see wha...
What's up with WTI: Editorial # 111
Ciao from Rome, Happy 2019! We want to share with you a few numbers regarding our 2018. During last year we've promoted 7,427 news (1,892 of the about Italy, the other ones about something Italian in the US); published 198 articles in the 12 issues of our Magazine; done 24 interviews; published one yearbook (about the 2017 interviews). Our archive...
Italian handcrafts: Trentino ceramic-tiled stoves
The clay deposits found in Trentino influenced the establishment of ceramic-tiled stove production in certain geographical areas, amply documented by historians, from the 14th century until the mid-19th century. Sfruz, Vermilion and Molina di Fiemme seem to have been the towns most specialised in the production of stoves; in other areas, such as in...
Italian culture and history: Cagliari
Cagliari, the “happiest city in Italy,” is the Capital of the impossibly beautiful Island of Sardinia, and is rich in history. Similar to Rome in that it is spread out over seven hills, bears the traces of the Phoenician, Carthaginian and Roman dominations, and jealously preserves the vestiges of 13th- and 14th-Century Pisan fortresses (the Torre...
Italian little Italies: Altomonte, the Angevin dream
Altomonte is a name that shines on the map, a borgo that is hard to forget, made of stairways and alleys going all around the Church della Consolazione, it is the best example of Gothic-Angevin art in Calabria. You can start your visit from the castle of Norman origin (XII century): expanded and restored by its various landowners throughout time, i...
Italian flavors: Genoa Basil
Ocymum basilicum, an annual herb of the Labiatae family, has been cultivated since ancient times. It was once used mainly as an ornamental plant, and occasionally for medicinal purposes. The Latin term “basilicum” is a translation of the Greek “òkimon basileus”, or “royal herb”; the ancient Greeks cultivated it in ornamental vases, but did not use...
Italian traditions: The ingenious madness of the Ovodda Carnival
In recent years we are seeing in Italy a continuous intensification of "ethnic tourism", folk festivals and historical re-enactments, religious rituals, patronal festivals, ethno-gastronomic events and carnivals have taken on great interest in the public, so as to spread the phenomenon of direct observation of travelers outside the manifestations o...
Italian land and nature: Playing Golf in Italy
For those dreaming of a golf vacation, Italy offers a number of itineraries that also include the best of wellness, cuisine and art. From north to south, in mountains or at sea, on the Peninsula and off, one can find a wide variety of greens set against spectacular backdrops, and characterized by significant cultural, artistic and enogastronomical...
Italian innovation: Clean Water Needed!
Scientific research shows that, over the past decades, numerous hydrologic regiments have changed not only in the EU, but in the US as well, and worldwide. On the subject matter, the Food and Agriculture Organization, specialized agency of the UN, who acts as a speaker for humane issues related to food and water shortages, has openly and repeatedly...