Legit Italian: Can you identify these 13 pasta shapes?
So, Siri tells me that Marco Polo did NOT bring pasta back to Italy from China. In fact, pasta was invented by Italians and has long been a symbol of their pride in the culinary world. Since then, over 400 types of unique pasta have been made throughout time, and here on The Rock, we certainly have an affinity for a select few that are a s...
Italy comes in third as robotics’ supplier to the US market, and strives to gain more
In Illinois, which alone is worth a third of Italian GDP, the number one imported product from Italy is this: machinery. And it is not by chance, the ICE-Italian Trade Agency joint mission, Ucimu-Sistemiper produrre, the Ministry of Economic Development and Confindustria chose Chicago, the key manufacturing hub of the United States, in order to ill...
Più la calpesti, più genera energia. È sarda la mattonella (SEF) amica dell’ambiente
Immaginate di creare energia attraverso una semplice pressione esercitata dai piedi su un pavimento. Questa è l'idea rivoluzionaria che due ingegneri sardi, Alessio Calcagni e Simone Mastrogiacomo, hanno sviluppato con Smart Energy Floor. Un prodotto sviluppato dalla loro giovane startup, Veranu, dopo la laurea in ingegneria elettronica al...
Film screening: The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life
When: Thursday, May 12, 2016 – 5:30 pm – 7:05 pmWhere: Museum of Fine Arts Boston – Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161), 465 Huntington Ave., Boston MA The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life by Emanuela Giordano (Italy/France, 2015, 54 min.). Italian & French with English subtitles. The rich story of the Jews of Veni...
AIAE, come promuovere l’Italia insegnandola in America
By Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino Che emozione che si prova nel trascorrere la festa del lavoro insieme a colleghi per il Gala dell'AIAE, l'organizzazione che raggruppa tutti quei professionisti italiani in America che, oltre alle loro varie attività, si dedicano all'insegnamento e alla diffusione della lingua e cultura italiana. Sono f...
NJIHC Collodi Award Presentation
On Friday April 29th, the New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission presented Frank Campione with the Commission's Collodi award. The award recognizes a New Jersey educator who has done an exceptional job at integrating Italian and Italian American material into the classrom by drawing upon lessons from the NJIHC Universality of Italian Heritage Curri...
The most mind-blowing theater this June is in New Jersey
By David Cote As reported earlier this month, there will be a surprising number of experimental and refreshingly offbeat plays to choose from this summer. That makes me happy—especially since I'll have the chance to catch up on shows I missed the first time around, such as Small Mouth Sounds and Men on Boats. But there's weird, an...
Diventa sponsor A.N.P.S. - USA e contribuisci a portare la famosa LAMBORGHINI HURACAN LP 610-4 della Polizia Italiana a New York per il Columbus Day 2016
L'Associazione Nazionale della Polizia di Stato sezione USA, ha avuto l'approvazione per portare a New York in occasione del prossimo Columbus Day 2016 la famosa Lamborghini Huracan, superstar delle autovetture in dotazione alla Polizia Italiana. L'auto dovrà volare nella Grande Mela scortata da quattro poliziotti in divisa, che la seguiranno...
Italian Invasion: New Exhibition in Chelsea Market Explores Food and Fashion
Chelsea Market may seem like a strange place to hold a fashion exhibition. But to Stefano Dominella—co-curator of L'Eleganza del Cibo, an exhibition exploring the relationship between fashion and food—it is the strangeness that makes it the perfect place. "It's transgressive, it's cutting-edge," he said. Open for a mere 11 days—starting fr...
Tra i tavoli di Soho la “bagna caoda” conquista i newyorkesi
I ristoranti di cucina italiana non mancano a New York. Più difficile invece trovare l'autentica cucina piemontese. Questo fino a quando sei amici, cinque torinesi e un nativo di Tortona, hanno deciso di farsi ambasciatori delle specialità della loro terra nella grande mela. Un'idea nata in una serata in compagnia di fronte a un buon bicch...
U.S. Pizza Museum sets up shop at Logan Square's Whistler
There's a museum for pizza? You bet. Sort of. The U.S. Pizza Museum doesn't have a permanent physical home, but you can see items from its collection online and in pop-up exhibitions like the one at Whistler Storefront Gallery in Logan Square. The exhibit focuses on pizza pop culture and Logan Square pizzerias. Artifacts include video game...
St. Vitus Festival marks 35th year
There was a time — the late 1940s or 1950s — when a small festival was held by St. Vitus Church, then located on Jefferson Street. Extension cords actually ran from inside of homes out onto the booths to keep them lit up. How things have changed. Weeks before the popular St. Vitus Festival each year, locals and out-of-towners start an...