Review: Bei Tempi
The trend in Italian fare in New Orleans is toward the cuisine of northern Italy. New spots offer up not the rich red "gravy" of the South, but softer, more elegant dishes composed of handmade pastas, cured salumi and al dente risotto with shaved truffles. Still, the Crescent City has long loved red sauce, and that's evident in many local...
Basket cheese is an 85-year-old tradition for local company
Easter often is associated with the candy aisle, and its tempting display of rainbow-hued jelly beans, foil-wrapped chocolate eggs and bright-yellow marshmallow Peeps. For an 85-year-old cheese company in Verona, the 40-day Lenten season is punctuated not by sweets but by an unusual cheese product that for two days each week leading up to...
Local Italian group honors surfer Dean Randazzo
The Greater Atlantic City Chapter of UNICO National and the Atlantic County UNICO Scholarship Foundation will honor surfer Dean Randazzo at its annual Person of the Year Scholarship Dinner on Friday. Randazzo, the founder of the Dean Randazzo Cancer Foundation and a cancer survivor, is New Jersey's most successful professional surfer. His foundati...
Scholarships now available through The National Italian American Foundation
Scholarships are now available to college students through the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) for the 2015-2016 academic year. Since NIAF's inception 40 years ago, the scholarship program has grown from four scholarships of $250 each to dozens of annual scholarships ranging in value from $2,500 to $10,000 each in the Ital...
International Opera Theater presents American premiere of “AZA’IO” Italian Children’s Opera
October 24 @ 7:30 pm - Philadelphia (PA), String Theory School Theater 16th and Vine Streets AZA'IO was the 11th world premiere and 1st Italian children's opera created by International Opera Theater in Teatro degli Avvaloranti, Citta' della Pieve in August of 2014. In the past 12 years, artists from more than 40 countries have come to Citta'...
Sons of Italy celebrates 100 years
The oldest Sons of Italy chapter in New Jersey installed Pat Smarrito of Glendora as its new president during its 100th anniversary celebration Sunday. Daniel J. Longo, the national president of the Order Sons of Italy in America, participated in the installation of officers of Alighieri Garibaldi Lodge 494, which had its roots in South Ca...
Santisi Imports Launches Online Italian Specialty Foods Store
Santisi Imports is pleased to announce the opening of their online store. In addition to their brick and mortar location in Easton, PA, they're bringing their Specialty Italian food offerings to the entire country. For people that don't live in the Northeast near New York City and Philadelphia, they can now order everything from Juniper Balsamic to...
We gear up for Consulate Canepari’s Ciao Philadelphia!
By Barbara Ann Zippi August is already here and it's an exciting time to witness who is going to be working with our world leaders come November. Brava to the new groundbreaking Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi and to Prime Minister of England, Theresa May. Making headline news in the Italian American community from South Philly is "Project R...
Italy in Us 2013: lo chef forsempronese Luca Zanchetti in America per promuovere il gusto "Made in Italy"
Lo chef ricercatore Luca Zanchetti è stato scelto ed ingaggiato dalla dirigenza dei locali "Girasole" di Philadelfia e Atlantic City come chef promotore di cultura enogastronomica, in questo anno 2013 dedicato proprio alla cultura italiana in USA. Nel corso dell'anno 2013, in tutti gli stati americani, i due paesi, Italia & Usa, come in una so...
Spirit of the Italian Market lives, and its familiar name should too
The recent public debate over whether to rename South Philadelphia's Italian Market has largely missed the point. There seems to be some confusion over what the name of the historic Ninth Street corridor of shops, restaurants, and curbside vendors means to Philadelphians who coined the moniker.
Italian dishes in double high C
Carmela and Delphine Calamari flit, at the moment, between New York City and Philadelphia. The Calamari Sisters' hilarious Italian stew of cooking, dancing and singing will be front, center and sideways in the Strand Center for the Arts on Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 14. "We're about to start a web series," said Delphine, the more...
WV Italian Heritage Festival Presents “Amore;" A Musical Tribute to Family, Friends, and Heritage
Brandon LeRoy and Marissa Bailey will be debuting their new show "Amore" on the Antero Main Stage of the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival on August 31 at 12:00 p.m. They will be accompanied by the live WVIHF orchestra under the direction of Phil Wyatt. "Amore" is a musical tribute to Italian heritage, family, and friends, featuring...