Wine is still a Cinderella in e-commerce, but has a huge potential
It looks like a good time for the growth of e-commerce in the Italian wine business, a sector that's currently worth €24 million in purchase of domestic and foreign wines, about 0.2% of the total wine market. But, according to a joint study by the Svinando Wine Club, the University of Turin and the online wine store Piuvino.it, that figure could ri...
La Festa, Philly’s Funnest Street Festival in Philadelphia
When: June 5, 2016 Sunday 11:00 AM - 7:00 PMWhere: Filitalia International Foundation's Home of History of Italian Immigration Museum, 1834 East Passyunk Avenue , Street Parking - some with meters - Bring Quarters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Don't Miss La Festa, Philly's Funnest Street Festival, on Sunday June 5th from 11-7. Located on E...
L.A. chef with Italian roots opens Palladio in Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs now hosts a small slice of Northern Italy. Chef Emanuela Calcara opened Palladio Trattoria on May 13 after moving to Southwest Florida after 16 years in California. "I wanted to be closer to my family," Calcara explained. Calcara was born in Maryland and grew up in Vicenza in Northern Italy. She completed her culin...
The Italian way: Risotto versus Pasta Asciutta
WTI Magazine #80 2016 June 17Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: In one of my last lessons of the school year, I encountered a very interesting dilemma: is "Pasta Asciutta" better than "Risotto"? While discussing with my students the qualities of one dish compared to the other, I realized that there were a lot of misundersta...
Schepis Museum: Italian Renaissance in Columbia
Think Louisiana is all French? Well think again. The Schepis Museum in Caldwell Parish is a piece of Italian heritage in the quaint town of Columbia. Built in 1916, the Italian Renaissance-style palazzo has been home to a variety of retail businesses over the years but was converted into a museum in 1993. Now the Schepis Museum currently o...
Italian Renaissance Master Della Robbia Gets His First Major US Show
An Italian Renaissance great will get his moment in the spotlight here in the US, as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will host the first major stateside exhibition of the glazed terracotta sculptures of Luca della Robbia (1399/1400–1482). "Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence," which opens in August, will feature about 50 work...
Coffee & Doughnuts with Little Italy's 'Star Trek' priest
By Paul McMullen The Catholic Review recently spoke with Pallottine Father Bernard P. Carman, pastor of St. Leo the Great in Little Italy and Star Trek fan. CR: What and where are your Catholic roots? FATHER CARMAN: Dad's family (Italian and Irish) always was Catholic. Mom's (English, Finnish, German, Blackfoot Native American) w...
Italian power-tool maker plans to bring more manufacturing to U.S. headquarters in Mead
A Mead tool manufacturer with a long history has big plans for growth as its parent company plans to increase manufacturing at the site. Rupes, an Italian maker of electric and pneumatic power tools, sanders, polishers and vacuum systems, last week announced that more of its tools would be manufactured at the company's U.S. headquarters at...
September 18, Sunday - Cena e Cinema Italiano Bowers Museum
For the September Cinema Italiano, the Bowers Museum will be introducing Cena e Cinema, an Italian dinner and movie program! Join us in Tangata for dinner at 5PM (Menu TBA), followed by the film screening at 7PM in the Norma Kershaw Auditorium. The Film: Mio Fratello e' Figlio Unico- My Brother is an Only Child (2007) (108 min).This follows the li...
Games Italians Play: The History of Bocce
You can think of modern bowling as a distant cousin of bocce. In England, they have "bowls", a lawn version of the game using a flattened ball which is rolled like a wheel (bocce balls are always spherical). The Latin word bottia (ball) is the root of the Italian word boccia or Bocce. Latin also used the word boulles (balls), hence the nam...
Pasta Beach combines Italian cuisine, American summer
Nestled between the many home goods stores, bistros and coffee shops in Wayland Square lies the neighborhood's newest resident: Pasta Beach. The third installment of the chain, which boasts locations in Newport and Boston, opened just weeks ago Aug. 18. Already the restaurant attracts many culinary cognoscenti native to Providence and the surroundi...
Bravo's brings heart of Italy to El Dorado
By Matt Cooper One man who claims to be living out the axiom of the American dream first opened doors to Bravo's Italian Bistro three weeks ago at 2529 W. Central Ave. in El Dorado.One way to preview Butler County's newest Italian eatery would be to write of a replacement for the El Dorado Chophouse and the Red Coach In Restaurant, which it is. &...