American cheese is no longer the most popular cheese in America
For nearly 100 years, most of the cheese made in America was American cheese. Specifically, cheddar cheese reigned supreme: The cheese is a hallmark of states like Vermont and Wisconsin, and its production currently accounts for more than three times as much as all other American cheeses combined. It’s the cheese that’s processed into Kraft Singles...
Singer Giada Valenti as tour guide on romantic Italy trip
Singer Giada Valenti, known for her stunning music special on PBS entitled “From Venice With Love, is inviting her fans to join her on a romantic trip she is organizing, May 19-27, to Venice and a part of the Veneto region. The in Venice born songstress writes passionately, almost every week, about the special things of her beautiful hometown on so...
Ddl su riacquisto cittadinanza, Francesca Alderisi (FI): “uno strappo morale, l'Italia dia risposte concrete”
“Per migliaia di italiani nel mondo l'ingiusta perdita della cittadinanza è un vulnus, un vuoto, uno strappo morale che da troppo tempo ormai esige risposte concrete, efficaci e all'altezza di un Paese civile quale è l'Italia”. Con queste parole comincia il disegno di legge sul riacquisto della cittadinanza presentato al Senato lo scorso 12 giugno...
The Making Of Beyoncé And Mariah Carey’s Couture Cavalli Costumes
Beyoncé and Mariah Carey were back in Roberto Cavalli on stage this weekend – but unlike in 2014 when both divas wore the same embellished, black dress, this time they were dressed in custom-made designs by the Italian label’s new creative director Paul Surridge. Carey kicked off her Las Vegas residency on July 5 in a couture Cavalli dress, while B...
Remembering ‘Big Nancy’ Sinatra
She was, a friend of hers once noted, “a great wife, a great ex-wife, and a great widow,” and when Nancy Barbato Sinatra died at 101 on Friday, she took with her perhaps the last living link to a world that knew Frank Sinatra not as a legend but as an impossibly skinny fireman’s son from Hoboken, who would sing for a pack or two of cigarettes and a...
Tartufo, cresce l'export negli Usa
Un giro di affari di circa 21 milioni di dollari. A tanto ammonta l'import del tartufo negli Stati Uniti nel 2017. Un mercato che tuttavia non prende in considerazione i prodotti trasformati a base di tartufo che, si stima, contribuiscano per un ulteriore 40%. Di questi 21 milioni, il 57% è relativo all'import italiano di solo tartufo. Un trend che...
Balsamic Vinegar of Modena Convinced the American & Italian Chefs
After the debut of last year, here is a great success for the second edition of the “Balsamic Vinegar of Modena, the Original” project at Fancy Food Show in New York. The Show is the largest for specialty food in North America, featuring exhibitors from 54 countries as well as the United States and continues to attract top buyers eager to make new...
Historic Sparkling Italian Wine Spritzer Infused With Botanicals and Fruit Juice Debuts in United States
Sprizzerí, Italy's original wine spritzer, is making a splash in the United States in time for summer gatherings. Downright delightful, is a refreshing sparkling wine spritzer that is infused with herbs, flower blossoms and fruit juice. Originating in Northern Italy in 1934, the brand's popularity led to its significant growth and expansion across...
'The Sacco Gang' is a Sicilian Western
During the 1960s, what was once an essentially American institution, the Western motion picture, was pretty much taken over as a thriving Italian movie industry churned out numerous box-office hits that came to be called Spaghetti Westerns. So what, you might ask, does this have to do with Andrea Camilleri's short novel, "The Sacco Gang," as transl...
Nancy Sinatra Sr., first wife of Frank Sinatra, dies at 101
Nancy Sinatra Sr., the childhood sweetheart of Frank Sinatra who became the first of his four wives and the mother of his three children, has died. She was 101. Her daughter, Nancy Sinatra Jr., tweeted that her mother died Friday and a posting on her web page said she died at 6:02 p.m. but didn't indicate where she died. "She was a blessing and the...
ESPN, Turner reportedly at head of sudden race for Italian Serie A TV rights
For the last few moths, there hasn’t been much news on the future of the TV rights for Italy’s Serie A in the US. BeIN previously held the rights, but they expired after the 2017-18 seasonand IMG opted to bundle the rights with the rights to England’s FA Cup to encourage higher bids. Those bids never surfaced, and no one knew where in the hell eith...
America Is Developing a Roman-Style Pizza Addiction
As a kid growing up in suburban Wisconsin in the ’90s, a “surprise, we brought home pizza!" from the adults in the house meant a couple of stuffed crusts from Pizza Hut. Luigi Roditis, who now makes his own pizza at nine-month-old il Romanista in Los Angeles, had it a little better during his childhood. The LA native spent summers visiting relative...