Meet the Author: Paolo Cognetti presents "The Eight Mountains"
Monday, March 19, 2018, at 6:00 pm. Entrance: Free. Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago - 500 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450 - Chicago, Illinois 60611. Author Paolo Cognetti will present his novel, "The Eight Mountains" (2018, Atria Books), Winner of the Strega Prize. An Interview in Italian and English with the Author will be conducted by Prof...
Fourth Annual La Primavera Vinni April 6th, 8pm
Rosa Tatuata Returns to the Goddard Riverside’s Bernie Wohl Center (647 Columbus Avenue at West 91st Street - New York, NY 10025) April 6th, 2018 from 8:00pm - 10:30pm. $20. advanced sales at Eventbrite. $25 at the door. Rosa Tatuata present the 4th Annual La Primavera Vinni!/ Spring Has Come - Rosa Tatuata’s Sicilian & Southern Italian Dance Party...
The first gelato ambassador is focused on the consumer
Gianluigi Dellaccio, 43, is chef and president at Dolci Gelati, with locations in Shaw, Old Town Alexandria and Takoma Park. The gelato is also for sale at Nationals Park and in local Whole Foods Markets. He lives in Brightwood. You’ve just been appointed gelato ambassador to the United States. Mr. Ambassador, what are the biggest issues in gelato-...
Pascrell tours Italian eyewear company in Secaucus
Rep. Bill Pascrell toured the U.S. headquarters of Italian eyewear manufacturer Safilo today, touting manufacturing in the state's Ninth Congressional District. The company, which was originally founded in 1878, produces 30,000 styles of glasses, has 12,000 employees in the United States and invented the mass production of eyewear, an executive sai...
Una statua del Bernini in America: colpo grosso di un museo del Connecticut
Un piccolo museo universitario del Connecticut ha fatto un colpo grosso; è riuscito a portare in America una statua di Gianlorenzo Bernini che nei suoi quasi cinque secoli di vita non si era mai mossa da Roma, e a organizzarci intorno una rispettabile mostra sul Barocco romano. Philippe de Montebello, celebre ex direttore del Metropolitan Museum di...
The Italian region of Piedmont offers some top quality wines
On these chilly gray days, my mind races back to a week of spectacular sunshine and even more spectacular wines in the northwestern Italian region of Piedmont. My wife and I tasted so many excellent wines during our time in Piedmont that it’s hard to know where to start. But today I’d like to share two wine experiences that surprised and delighted...
Disegnando California
Si aggira per San Francisco col suo cappotto blu, e vuole capire tutto. Aldo Cibic passa sempre più tempo in California ed è stato invitato dall’Istituto di Cultura di San Francisco per la giornata del design italiano. Ha deciso di reinventarsi in Silicon Valley perché, dice al Foglio, “qui c’è un nuovo rinascimento”, e lo dice anche alla platea am...
Thank you for making Taste of Italy the biggest and best event ever!
More than 500 guests attended the Taste of Italy trade fair Grand Tasting on Monday, March 5 in Houston. More than 160 guests attended the sold-out seminars on Piedmont Wines, Texas BBQ and Lambrusco, and Traditional Balsamic Vinegar. The 144 exhibitors in attendance presented more than 1,000 products. The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Texas co...
Chicopee's Larry Baldassaro gives readers "Baseball Italian Style"
Larry Baldassaro grew up in Chicopee, loving baseball and dreaming about pitching in the big leagues. Along the way, he came under the guidance of Hank Gonet, a caring mentor to countless kids who played for him on Chicopee Boys Club sandlot teams. If you played for Hank, you learned the fundamentals, and you learned how to win. In Baldassaro's Boy...
Consolato onorario a Providence: il decreto in Gazzetta Ufficiale
È stato pubblicato in Gazzetta Ufficiale il decreto del Direttore Generale per le risorse e l'innovazione della Farnesina, Luca Sabbatucci, che eleva la sede di Providence, negli Stati Uniti, da vice consolato a consolato onorario. Il Consolato onorario, si legge nell’articolo 2 del decreto, è posto alle dipendenze del Consolato generale d'Italia i...
Il lusso domina nella classifica dei marchi italiani
L' eccellenza dell’industria italiana in alcuni settori, dalla moda al food, all’automotive trova conferma nella prima classifica italiana di BrandZ, realizzata per Wpp da Kantar Millward Brown, che da 12 anni edita la Top 100 mondiale dei marchi e ora ha deciso di seguire da vicino anche il nostro Paese, vista la ripresa dell’economia e la notorie...
Five Bistro to Reopen as J. Devoti Trattoria, Serving Farm-to-Table Italian
Anthony Devoti announced this morning that his long-running restaurant on The Hill, Five Bistro, will close and reopen as J. Devoti Trattoria."We've been doing Five for 11 years, so honestly I just wanted to do something different," Devoti says. "We've been toying with the idea of opening a new restaurant, and I wanted to do something more family-r...