America’, tu voi fa’ la Carbonara?
Noi italiani sulla cucina siamo suscettibili. Per antonomasia il nostro è il Paese della buona cucina, vantiamo chef stellati, ristoranti invidiati in tutto il mondo e ricette che fanno venire la bava alla bocca solo a leggerle. La cucina, infatti, è uno di quei campi in cui ci prendiamo qualche rivincita rispetto ai Paesi più ricchi e tec...
Italians built a lot of New Haven, but it wasn’t easy
Everyone knows in New Haven, you come to Wooster Street to find everything Italian. But where did those Italians come from? Author Anthony Riccio knows. He literally wrote the book about Italian Americans in New Haven. "You had people from Piedmonte, which was the northern part," Riccio said. "You had people from Lombardy, you had people f...
Come si dice in inglese…? Il prontuario dell’enoturista
di Anna Savino Tutti amano fare i test per vedere quanto si conosce un determinato argomento. Esperto del vino o novizio che tua sia, oggi potrai scoprire quanto ne sai in fatto di vino, ma... in inglese! Iniziamo con qualcosa di facile... The grape is picked from the vine in the vineyard during the harvest. In ital...
D’Angelo’s Italian Market: Made to order
by John Tredrea Sicily is where this story begins. In the 1970s, while still a teenager, Joseph D'Angelo emigrated from Sicily to Brooklyn. In high school there he met a girl Anna, who also had recently come to Brooklyn from Sicily. They fell in love, got married and had a son, Frank, and a daughter, Danielle. And all four of...
Gole Alcantara: fantastic beauty
Gole Alcantara are in the valley of the same name in Eastern Sicily (between Messina and Catania). Some have reported seeing here "the local Loch Ness Monster [...]. Around here, we call it 'u Sugghiu', perhaps because its shape resembles the sturdy wooden cylinder (called 'subbio', in Italian) used in old looms, around which the threads of the war...
NIAF: Nice to Know
By Rosario Mariani Pawnbrokers The traditional symbol of the pawnbroker three golden balls (photo above) is derived from the Medici family coat-of-arms, who ruled Florence in the 15th and 16th centuries. The symbol was spread by the Lombards, Italian bankers, Goldsmiths and money lenders who set up business in medieval London. &...
Italian pizzeria to replace 100 Montaditos in Suniland Shopping Center
by Emon Reiser Italian pizza chain Piola is taking over a space previously occupied by troubled fast-casual 100 Montaditos, which recently filed for bankruptcy in Florida. The pizzeria signed a 10-year lease for a 2,517 square-foot space at 11421 South Dixie Highway in Pinecrest in the Suniland Shopping Center, Terranova Corp. announced. The...
105 anni di Alfa Romeo, dagli aerei alla nuova Giulia
di Maurizio Pesce Con la presentazione della nuova Giulia, Alfa Romeo ha festeggiato i suoi 105 anni. Oltre un secolo dalla produzione della prima A.L.F.A., la 24 HP che ha inaugurato la storia del marchio nel 1910 e che apre la vasta collezione raccolta al rinnovato Museo Storico "La Macchina del Tempo" appena riaperto ad Arese dopo quasi...
TARGETTI GROUP Announces Launch of New U.S. Headquarters – TARGETTI USA
TARGETTI GROUP announces new operations in the U.S. that will operate under the name TARGETTI USA and led by U.S. Business Development Manager, Marie Paris. TARGETTI USA headquarters will be located in Costa Mesa, California and will offer a full line of U.S. approved products from both TARGETTI and DuraLamp brands available via TARGETTI USA sales...
The 'Dawn' of Tony Orlando
by Ron Onesti Growing up in the "dawn" of the variety show concept, one of my favorites had to be "The Sonny & Cher Show." Each week, watching the little Italian guy get picked on by the tall beauty, well, really hit home for me, as I was one myself. When the show went on summer hiatus in 1974, its replacement starred a guy wh...
Dine Out Maine: Meanwhile in Belfast
by James H. Schwartz Take a seat at Meanwhile in Belfast, the new pizza restaurant that opened here in March, and you'll discover that pizza is a sensual meal – a feast for all the senses. There's the heady fragrance of fresh dough and the occasional whiff of garlic wafting from the kitchen and enticing customers (or passersby) to...
The Italian Way. Addressing the Italian Stereotypes, Myth 9 – Opera Lovers
WTI Magazine #67 2015 September, 4Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: When talking about music and the melodious sound of the Italian language, we cannot but remind ourselves that Italy needs to be associated to "melodrama" and specifically, to the melodrama featured in Operas. Thus, here I am to address the stereotype of wh...