Abbiocco’s Italian dishes aim to put diners in ‘food coma’
Good food runs in Rose Brutico Fazio’s family, but she still never believed she’d own her own restaurant one day. As the granddaughter of the original owners of Brutico’s restaurant in Old Forge, she learned treasured family recipes for sauce and meatballs from her uncle and relatives. When Fazio’s own children were young and she made the sauce for...
At the Giro d’Italia — the Tour of Italy — cycling back to joyfulness
Even if I hadn’t ridden my bike 191 miles on roads that climbed 23,850 vertical feet in the past four days, my quads would have found the flight of steps up to the podium of the Giro d’Italia — the Tour of Italy — steep. Still in my cleated cycling shoes, which are ideal for riding but not the best for walking, I ascend the galvanized steel treads...
This pizza is made from a 1,000-year-old recipe
The best pizza in Italy? It’s in New York City, of course. Well, officially, it’s in Southern Italy — either in pizza king Naples or in Tramonti, a tiny coastal town that gives its big-city neighbor a run for its dough. But southern Manhattan has the next-best thing at Tramonti La Pizza pizzeria, on Saint Mark’s Place. There, chef Giovanni Vittorio...
Christmas in the Italian Language: The Original Santa Claus
In some parts of Italy the feast of San Nicola, patron saint of Bari, ushers in the Christmas season (stagione natalizia) with the giving of gifts (regali) on the eve or morning of December 6, his onomastico (name’s day). Although many stories of San Nicola’ s life may be mythical, he did inspire the figure of a beloved old man—whether he’s known...
Secret Michelangelo room in Florence to open to public
For the first time, visitors will be able to enter a hidden cell in the Medici Chapels where Michelangelo is thought to have covered the walls with sketches. Until some 40 years ago, no one realized that it existed. And when curators discovered a secret room beneath the Medici Chapels in the Basilico di San Lorenzo in Florence, its walls covered in...
If only a lifestyle could become World Heritage
Writing for a living is at once a curse and a blessing: a curse because, believe me, writer’s block is real and hits when you least expect it. A blessing because nothing can really beat sitting down with your thoughts, day in day out, writing them down on a piece of paper - if you like doing stuff the old fashioned way like me, that is - and mould...
Il vino italiano negli Usa deve puntare sulle etichette Premium
L’Italia per poter recuperare la leadership di primo fornitore in America deve puntare in principal modo sulle etichette premium con un prezzo superiore ai 20 dollari a bottiglia. Questo e’ quanto emerge da un’attenta analisi effettuata da Nomisma. A quanto pare gli Stati Uniti ricoprono la prima posizione di mercato principale di consumo di vino a...
Italian designer makes inroads in Birmingham
Matteo Perin is an Italian designer who creates custom-made, luxury clothing for international celebrities and business leaders. He has growing ties with Birmingham, including Shaia's of Homewood Inc. How did you first become involved in Birmingham? I met Ken Shaia – of Shaia’s Homewood – while I was in New York City. He told me all about his store...
Amazon offre agli artigiani italiani una vetrina da quasi 300 milioni di clienti
Il colosso Usa dell’e-commerce dedica una sezione alle eccellenze italiane, dove le piccole imprese possono vendere i propri prodotti tradizionali, visibili ai 285 milioni di clienti del marketplace più conosciuto in Occidente Sono circa 800 gli artigiani italiani che vendono i propri prodotti tramite la vetrina ‘Made in Italy’ di Amazon, che perme...
Frank Caramagna, da Scoglitti a Sindaco di Elmwood Park, cittadina vicino New York
Un siciliano, di origini ragusane, Scoglitti per l’esattezza, e’ il nuovo sindaco Elmwood Park, tranquilla cittadina americana di 20 mila abitanti sita a 40 chilometri da New York. Francesco Caramagna, infatti, è stato eletto primo cittadino a seguito delle attesissime elezioni locali di novembre spuntandola dopo 50 anni di governo repubblicano e c...
New casual corner shop brings authentic Italian fare to bustling East Austin strip
Save for a few SXSW day parties and the occasional boozy brunch, we haven’t spent much time in the daylight near East Sixth Street. But all that may change soon when New Waterloo’s latest concept opens a block from the bustling strip. The hospitality group behind the South Congress Hotel and Hotel Ella, and restaurants like La Condesa and Sway, ann...
Historian looks at Italian-Jewish efforts to fight Fascism
In the lineup of 2 0th-century "bad guys," Adolf Hitler usually comes out on top, with Joseph Stalin running a close second. Behind them, Francisco Franco often appears and, farther down, Benito Mussolini. Now, with the publication of her latest work of nonfiction, A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons...