Friends of Christopher Columbus
To mount a social media campaign to defend the legacy of Christopher Columbus and what he means to Italian-Americans. Columbus Day is celebrated in many of the countries in the Americas for the anniversary of his arrival to the New World on October 12, 1492. He originally set out to sail for India under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. H...
American Companies supporting Italy’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
In un momento storico di inaspettata difficoltà, gli Stati Uniti si sono dimostrati, ancora una volta, i nostri più grandi Alleati. AmCham Italy, in accordo con la Missione Diplomatica USA in Italia e la Missione Diplomatica Italiana negli Stati Uniti, fin dall'inizio della pandemia che ha particolarmente colpito il nostro Paese, ha avviato un prog...
Historic Commellini Estate launches old world-inspired Italian restaurant Tavola Calda
It started with the New York Review of Books, this whole Tuscany thing. This was decades ago. There was an ad in the back of an issue for a house rental, and there was an open summer. Then, there was a vacation. And though Frances Mayes had been to Italy before, it was in Tuscany where she fell in love. Years later, in 1990, Mayes purchased her own...
Piada Italian Street Food Contributes to Nonprofits of Employees’ Choice
Piada Italian Street Food has taken an unconventional, employee-driven approach to its corporate giving. When deciding how it would distribute its charitable contributions to fight racism and support the local communities where its restaurants are located last month, the fast-casual restaurant company surveyed its employees to ensure that the compa...
Italian Coastlines and the Best Beaches
Live Coffee Chat at Casa Belvedere: Italian Beaches/ Le Spiagge Italiane. Saturday, July 25th • 10:00am. Learn how to vacation as the Italians do! Guest speaker: Marco Evangelista, Director of Journeys by Central Holidays. Each Coffee Chat guest is entered to win a specialty gift courtesy of SI-Espresso! REGISTER HERE. Once you register, you will r...
Love Makes The Perfect Pizza
If you grew up in America, you’ve likely had your share of pizza — foldable, New York-style slices from the local pizzeria on the way home from school, Chicago deep dish with the family on a Friday night, or a any number of soulless, rubbery assembly line pies in your dorm room. But, back then, you probably didn’t indulge in anything that resembled...
WOP! or: You talkin’ to me?
I found this thing called WOP! in a now-gone used bookstore in exurban Connecticut a few years back. When I took it up to the counter, the owner said, “I’m so glad someone’s finally buying this.” Perhaps because he wanted the book out of his store? It was published in 1973 by Straight Arrow Press, one in a series called “Ethnic Prejudice in America...
List Of 183 Monuments Ruined Since Protests Began, And Counting
Thirty-three statues of Columbus. Nine of the Founding Fathers. Eight of Saint Junipero Serra. With the frequency of the ongoing iconoclasm, it can be hard to gain a scale of the problem. For each story that has breached the news cycle, at least a dozen went unreported outside of local media. This detailed list records each instance monuments have...
Skye McAlpine’s New Italian Cookbook is Full of Hosting Ideas
For some cooks, a decorated table is just as important as the feast that rests on top. That is the case for Sunday Times’ food columnist and cookbook author, Skye McAlpine, whose latest cookbook was inspired by friendships and festive meals in Venice, Italy. Next week, the cookbook, “A Table for Friends: The Art of Cooking for Two or Twenty,” will...
Eusebio Kino, S.J., a ‘padre on horseback,’ moves closer to canonization
Among a number of holy men and women declared venerable by Pope Francis on July 10 was a Jesuit scholar and founder of more than 20 missions during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Eusebio Francesco Chini, S.J. In Mexico and the southwestern United States, he is best known as Padre Kino, an adaptation of his surname that he personally introd...
Avvisi di incarico per Addetto Scientifico presso l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington e i Consolati Generali di Boston e Houston
Il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale ha pubblicato sei nuovi avvisi di incarico per esperto ex art. 168 D.P.R. 18/67 con funzioni di Addetto Scientifico, per la promozione della scienza e tecnologia italiana e dell’innovazione industriale presso le alcune Sedi diplomatiche italiane all’estero. Tra questi, tre avvisi...
Elena Delle Donne Gets Candid About Battle with Lyme Disease: 'I Take 64 Pills a Day'
Elena Delle Donne is speaking her truth and opening up about her battle with Lyme disease after she says that the WNBA and WNBPA's panel of physicians denied her request to sit out of the 2020 season for medical reasons. The Washington Mystics small forward, who has battled the disease since 2008, shared an open letter about her struggles with t...