The world's best kept secret Chocolate | Modica Chocolate
" Travelers have been drawn to Sicily intriguing history,volcanoes & famed cuisine, but somehow the island’s distinctive chocolate - made in the Unesco World Heritage town of Modica and inspired by traditions of the ancient Aztecs - has remained one of the world best-kept secrets. " This is what Lucinda Hawksley says in BBC.com website talking abo...
Italian Heritage Festival Spring Gala and ticket information announced
Tickets are now available for the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival Spring Gala announcing Regina Maria XXXIX and her court. The event will be held Saturday, April 29 at the Village Square Conference Center on Route 19, Milford Street in Clarksburg. Tickets are $40.00 for adults and $20 for children under 10. The event is reservation only. Pl...
Alfa Romeo Widens Target Market with 2017 Giulia
Giulia features beautiful Italian design crafted by Alfa Romeo artisans at the Cassino plant in Frosinone, Italy. Built around the driver, Alfa Romeo Giulia designers focused on simplistic elegance, with an emphasis on incorporating the essential elements for performance. Inside, Giulia’s high level of craftsmanship starts with an asymmetric-styled...
Michael Simonetti, 83, former Winslow councilman and school grounds supervisor
They had a rare love, refusing to part in their last days together. He suffered from asbestosis, and she lost her ability to speak as Alzheimer’s progressed. Still, they remained in their Winslow Township home, with his hospice bed next to hers. When Michael Simonetti asked for his wife, relatives put Josephine in a wheelchair, her hand in his. Hou...
Supplizio and the surprising story of supplì
"Street Food” has seen a meteoric rise in popularity over recent years. It has become a trendy term used to describe the sorts of dishes traditionally eaten by the working class. Oriental Street Food has especially benefited from this latest spark in interest, yet very little is said about the Italian ‘Cibo di strada.’ With that in mind, I headed t...
Ladies’ Night Out: Meet us in Murano
When: April 26 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm - Where: Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ 07960 - Costs: $20 - $40 Ladies’ Night Out is back and you won’t want to miss it! In celebration of special exhibition, Lino Tagliapietra: Master of a Glass Renaissance (opening March 12), we’re thrilled to welcome you to enjoy Italian-themed finger...
“New Orleans wouldn’t be where it is without Sicilians”: 17th annual Kenner Italian heritage festival
The Kenner Italian heritage festival was started by former kenner chief of police, Nick Congemi to celebrate the rich Italian heritage that was part of the formation of New Orleans. The day was inspired by the customs shared by many Kenner residents, such as the St. Rosalie Procession in Rivertown. "The city of Kenner at one time was the center o...
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine
Perhaps more than any other painter, Sandro Botticelli (about 1445–1510) exemplifies the artistic achievement of Renaissance Florence in the 15th century. “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine,” organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary and Italy’s Metamorfosi Associazione Culturale, explores the dramatic change...
Suffolk's Bella Napoli Italian Resturant is authentically delicious
I was in search of real Italian pie, authentic pasta and a cannoli that I couldn’t put down. Bella Napoli Italian Restaurant in Suffolk answered my call. I visited Bella Napoli on a Friday evening during that in-between hour after lunch and before supper, so it was relatively quiet. Watching the husband and wife owners interact with one another, I...
Metro C, acquedotto di 2.300 anni scoperto sotto piazza Celimontana
Nel cuore della città, in piazza Celimontana, nell’area di cantiere che si trova proprio di fronte all’Ospedale militare del Celio. Qui — a quasi venti metri di profondità e dove di norma è impossibile scavare, e studiare, in sicurezza — ecco quella che gli archeologi definiscono «una scoperta clamorosa, di enorme importanza, perché si tratta, quas...
Revelers Pig-Out at the Annual Sagra Del Maiale (Pig Festival) in Hoboken, New Jersey
My friends and I hogged it up Saturday night at the Monte San Giacomo Club’s Annual Sagra del Maiale (Pig Festival) at the Hoboken Catholic Academy (555 7th St.) in Hoboken, New Jersey. Joining over two hundred other guests, we were treated to an array of delectable pork delicacies, including a phenomenal stuffed pork tenderloin and melt-in-your-mo...
Not Heard in New York Since 1929: Respighi's “La Campana Sommersa"
The playwright Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) wafts like a ghost through the annals of early-twentieth-century opera. Alban Berg thought seriously of making an adaptation of Hauptmann’s play “And Pippa Dances” (1906) before moving on to the two Frank Wedekind plays from which he would fashion “Lulu.” And Carl Ruggles spent several of his early years...