Italian cuisine: Ravioli with beets and ricotta
Ravioli with beets and ricotta cheese is, without doubt, an elegant and colorful vegetarian dish that can be enjoyed as a first course or a main course. The typical sauce is butter and sage, topped with some grated Parmesan and freshly ground pepper. I love beets, they are one of my favorite winter vegetables. The intense color, due to some pigm...
Italian art: Bal Tic Tac
“One day, around the summer of 1921, Vinicio Paladini came to propose to Balla, a completely futuristic decoration work: it was a matter of decorating a night club in Via Milano in Rome". With these words Elica Balla described the genesis of Bal Tic Tac, the first futurist cabaret inaugurated by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and whose wall paintings w...
Italian language: New Italian, or maybe English?
New year, new section! Since just like any other language, Italian is alive, I decided that it was time to talk about its developments, its neologisms, its life! As technology progresses, new objects enter our lives and a language has to find new words for them, new adjectives, new verbs. So I decided to discuss them with you, to keep you updated,...
Italian gardens: Campo Imperatore Plateau
In Abruzzo, in the heart of the Gran Sasso massif, surrounded by some of the highest and most suggestive peaks of the Apennines, lies the Campo Imperatore plateau, nicknamed the Tibet of Abruzzo. The origin of this wide flat valley is to be found in the long work of floods and glaciers, which have gently shaped the morphology of the slope, giving s...
IT and US: Precipice sustaining the Italian language in America
Sustaining the growth of the Italian Language in US schools is a priority for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy explicable through its net of Embassy and Consulates. The reinstatement of Italian in the AP Program, which started with the 2011-12 school year, was an essential step for the propagation of the Itali...
Italian design: Prefabricated Made in Italy, a less known italian design
When it comes to intervening on a natural territory, every single decision must be taken in harmony with the surroundings, in-sink with the rhythms and materials of nature. Maybe this is what Roberto Dini and Stefano Girodo, research architects at the Mountain Architect Institute of Turin, had in mind when together with Leapfactory designed a lodge...
Italian wine: Pride in Nero d'Avola with Gulfi
In 1995 Vito Catania inherited the land from his father and this were the early beginnings of the Gulfi winery. His father, Raffaele, had saved the money to purchase the land from his 15 years of living in Paris where he moved after WWII in search of work. His aim was to purchase the land that is in the family today so that his family had a place...
"Paesi di Calabria, culture dell’abitare di ieri e di oggi" a Toronto, Philadelphia e L'Avana
Le associazioni Club Sannnicolese, Comunità di Filogaso e Mammola social Club di Toronto, presentano la mostra “Paesi di Calabria culture dell’abitare di ieri e di oggi” un progetto finanziato dalla Regione Calabria attraverso il piano annuale degli interventi e la Legge Regionale 54 del 2012, che mira alla valorizzazione e la promozione nel mondo....
Italytime e Dacia Maraini assieme nel nuovo testo ‘Tre Sguardi Su Pinocchio’
Tre Sguardi Su Pinocchio è la nuova scrittura scenica di tre episodi salienti de Le Avventure di Pinocchio di Collodi. Pensato per il Teatro, e ora disponibile in formato cartaceo ed e-book, con le preziose illustrazioni di Francesca Cerritelli, Tre Sguardi Su Pinocchio è fresco e piacevole da leggere. Si tratta di una storia meravigliosa, quella d...
Get involved with the 2019 Houston Italian Festival!
The Houston Italian Festival is seeking new volunteers to join the Festival Executive Committee in 2019! Each year, Festa Italiana is made possible by the helpful hands of the committee members, who serve in the full calendar year and make important decisions throughout the year. The Committee meets once a month beginning in February. If you feel l...
94-year-old Lucca Ravioli Company to close in SF’s Mission district
Lucca Ravioli Co., the 94-year-old Italian deli in San Francisco’s Mission District, will close on April 20. Business is still brisk at the deli, which specializes in sandwiches, fresh pasta and imported goods. But owner Michael Feno wants to retire, said the deli’s manager, who gave his name as Jim. “We’re still busy as hell,” the manager said. Lu...
Italy Looks Like an Endless Festival Because It Is One
Politics is a show, and every country has its favorite. The United States is bringing on yet another Hollywood classic (the aging action hero, the desert, the border, the money). France is offering its periodic re-enactment of its Revolution, with gilets jaunes replacing sans-culottes. Germany’s national orchestra is saying goodbye to an exhausted...