Free Expo Italiana Showcases Tastes, Sounds & Products
by Janet Staihar To celebrate its 40th birthday, the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is bringing back the popular Expo Italiana. On Saturday, October 17, Expo Italiana will showcase Italian food and specialties, wine, fashion and culture, as part of the foundation's 40th Anniversary Awards Gala weekend. Mark your calen...
Madonnari Arts Fest chalks up success
2nd annual Madonnari Arts Festival, September 29 - October 2, 2016! Complete collection of artwork images appears on Madonnari Arts Fest facebook page. To read press stories visit www.littleitalymadonnari.com. The chalk art is fading on the streets of Little Italy, but the spirit and energy of the first Madonnari Arts F...
Rehoboth UNICO chapter inducts new members
UNICO National, established in 1922, the largest Italian-American organization in the United States, inducted new members into its Rehoboth Beach chapter Oct. 10 at The Glade Clubhouse near Rehoboth Beach. Anthony Mazzarelli, Antonietta Flocco and George Meringolo were sworn in and pledged to serve their nation and community, and to support ev...
Tuscan Sister City Sends Chef to Charlottesville
Tavola restaurant is excited to partner with the Charlottesville Sister City commission on an exchange of culinary talent between two Italian restaurants: Ristorante il Falcone in the sister city of Poggio a Caiano and tavola restaurant in Charlottesville. Each restaurant will send its chef to the other for one week. From June 6-...
Tuscan chef spends the week cooking at Tavola, and other restaurant news
by Laura Ingles They say in America that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Turns out that's pretty universal. "Her love for food started with a love for her husband, because the restaurant owner was her husband," says Caterina Martini, translating for seventh-generation Italian chef Roberta Vivetta Cintelli. "She starte...
45 years of Italian legacy at Freehold pizzeria
by Susan Bloom Arriving in the U.S. from the town of Monte di Procida just outside of Naples in 1970, Antonio Durazzo started as a longshoreman in Brooklyn. But not for long. He soon moved to Freehold Township, where he opened his own eatery, Attilio's Restaurant & Pizza, in 1972. The following year he was joined in the b...
Cafesano Successfully Expands with Help from Table Tracker System
Cafesano, a casual Italian and Mediterranean Bistro in Northern Virginia, has successfully opened a second, larger location in Dulles, VA with help from Long Range Systems' Table Tracker system. Cafesano has used the Table Tracker system for nearly a decade in their original Reston, VA location as a way to increase efficiency during their...
Annual Carnevale Italiano sails back into No. Brunswick
Carnival-goers will once again be delighted with rides, games, food, prizes and entertainment from July 18 to 22. Admission and parking will be free at the annual Carnevale Italiano, sponsored by the Italian American Social Club of North Brunswick (IASC). The five-day event will be held on the corner of Route 130 north and Apple Orchard Lane. The...
America chiama (ancora) Italia
In occasione della conferenza stampa di apertura della prima tappa di Vinitaly International USA 2013, John Gillespie, presidente del Wine Market Council, ha presentato i risultati dell'Annual Survey of Imported Wine Consumption Trends in the USA, realizzata dall'istituto Wine Opinions, sui trend americani di consumo di vino.I dati della ricerca ev...
Mondo Italiano: Teaching Italian in Pittsburgh
Are you Italian or of Italian descent? Do you know how to speak Italian? Some Italian-Americans can still speak it fluently while others might have lost the language of their "nonni" (grandparents). To learn to speak this great language, check out Mondo Italiano which was created by Viviana Altieri. She created Mondo Italiano with her desire of co...
‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
By Michael Dirda Today, Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) is little known to most American readers, being remembered, if at all, as some sort of decadent poet and novelist who enjoyed a stormy love affair with the great actress Eleonora Duse. But in his time, he was as famous as a rock star and in Italy remains to this day a figure of huge literary,...
The Myth of the Great War: An International Conference
An international interdisciplinary conference on "The Myth of the Great War - World War I: Myth and Reality" will be hosted in Philadelphia by the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, April 24-25, 2014, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. The conference is organized by Fabio Finotti, Christine Pogg...