Chi è Caterina Ceraudo, la chef donna migliore del 2017 per la Guida Michelin
Chef, sono la cuoca dell’anno per la Guida Michelin!”.Queste le parole con cui Caterina Ceraudo, 29 anni, chef del ristorante Dattilo, in Calabria, ha informato il suo maestro, lo chef Niko Romito, del riconoscimento appena ricevuto dalla prestigiosa guida “Rossa”, il primo del genere, ovvero “migliore chef donna” per il 2017, come riferisce il Cor...
Italian American Alliance created in Cambridge
The Italian American Alliance recently was created to serve as a lobbying and advocacy group for Italians in Cambridge. The group was created in response to the Cambridge City Council's decision to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. "We very much look forward to confronting those individuals as well as the cooperating organizations t...
Torquato Tasso alla Library of Congress di Washington
Il 24 marzo si svolgerà alla Library of Congress di Washington, la biblioteca del Parlamento degli Stati Uniti, un incontro teso a esplorare i legami tra la Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, le arti figurative e la musica. Laura Benedetti della Georgetown University e Peter Lukehart del Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts presso la N...
NIAF 2017 New York Gala: celebrating Italian American success
Last night I had the honor and the pleasure to attend the 2017 NIAF Spring Gala in New York. It is always an enormous privilege to be able to be part of this amazing celebration of the Italian American community. At the famous Cipriani 42 venue, for a completely sold out event, many friends of We the Italians were so kind to welcome me as the found...
TheFirstLast Plautilla Nelli Painting Restoration
The first woman artist of Florence painted the first and only known “Last Supper” by a woman. When Plautilla Nelli painted her large-scale masterpiece depicting the Last Supper in the 1570s in Florence, Italy, she was doing something no woman before or after her had ever done. But this painting requires restoration or risks being lost forever. Arti...
L.A.’s Italian-American Community Celebrates Charity and Abundance at St. Joseph’s Day Feast
While we hear plenty about St. Patrick’s Day festivities this time of year, for many Italian-Americans in Los Angeles the big celebration of mid-March is St. Joseph’s Day. The multi-day event culminates on March 19th, and while the mid-Lenten feast honors the patron saint of Sicily, it’s also celebrated by many immigrants and descendants of other r...
Morinello announces Italian-American scholarship opportunities
Assemblyman Angelo J. Morinello joined his colleagues in the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators and announced the conference is now accepting applications for its annual college scholarship contest. The conference will award four $3,000 scholarships to future and current college students based on academic and athletic achieve...
Now that's carb loading! World's biggest pasta bowl weighs in at 500lbs of spaghetti topped with 150 gallons of sauce and 50lbs of cheese
Piled high with 500lbs of spaghetti, 150 gallons of sauce and 50lbs of cheese, the world's biggest pasta bowl made its annual appearance for St. Joseph's Day celebrations. The whopping bowl of pasta, spanning eight feet in diameter, was more than enough to feed hungry New Orleans spectators on Friday. In addition to the noodles, meatless gravy and...
Italy’s Struggling Economy Has World’s Healthiest People
When it comes to living a long life, Italy is the place to be. The high-heeled boot surrounded by five seas is ranked the healthiest country on Earth in the Bloomberg Global Health Index of 163 countries. A baby born in Italy can expect to live to be an octogenarian. But 2,800 miles south in Sierra Leone, the average newborn will die by 52.While It...
For Many In RI, St. Joseph's Day Means Zeppole
Italian-American enclaves around the country celebrated St. Joseph’s day Sunday. This holiday comes with its own culinary tradition – a luscious pastry called a zeppole. In the kitchen at La Salle Bakery in Providence Rhode Island – a state where zeppole are famous -- a team of bakers furiously prepare. They know lines will be forming to snap up th...
The annual Hill Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show
This year we will once again be hosting our annual Hill Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show, in The Hill Neighborhood here in St. Louis. This year’s event is on Sunday, June 11th. All proceeds from the car show benefit St. Ambrose School and Shaw VPA Elementary School. Last year we had over 150 cars participate in the show and well over 1,000 people in...
First Look: Downtown Detroit gets an authentic northern Italian pizzeria when La Lanterna returns in April
Two of Michigan’s biggest culinary exports are Little Cesars and Jet’s, so it’s understandable if your neighborhood Hot-N-Ready purveyor is what pops to mind when someone says “pizzeria.” But that’s what passes for an American pizzeria. Those that you’ll find in northern Italy — of which the soon-to-open La Lanterna in downtown Detroit’s Capitol Pa...