An Experience in Old-School Italian at Alberto in Queens
by Kevin Kessler I had just taken the bus from Williamsburg and was now having visions of an Italian nonna feeding her husband nearly every bite of food on his plate. It was six o'clock on a Monday and I was in Forest Hills, Queens, enjoying the simple but excellent bruschetta laid before me. Sitting under a vaulted ceiling in a r...
Rosanna Di Michele e quella cucina che parla di tradizioni
di Liliana Rosano A New York e dintorni Rosanna Di Michele è diventata una celebrità. Una faccia che è ormai un'icona, grazie allo stile personalissimo che la contraddistingue: capelli nero corvino racchiusi in una frangia stilosa, in perfetto abbinamento con la montatura degli occhiali in celluloide. Sorriso e calore tutto italiano, Rosa...
NYC Food Truck Lunch: Eggplant Calzone From Li-Sal’s Italian Kitchen
Since it's technically illegal to sell food from a truck in NYC, we've been seeing a dramatic rise in the number of higher-end food carts. Well, at least higher quality than the standard halal or hot dog cart. Food carts are legal in NYC, as long as you have the right permits and licenses. One of the newer food carts is Li-Sal's Italian Kitche...
Have You Visited New York City’s Lesser-Known “Little Italies”?
When you think of "Little Italy," you may picture the well-known Italian American neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan and the Bronx — but did you know that there are hubs of Italian culture in almost every corner of New York City? Following their mass immigration to New York in the late nineteenth century, Italian Americans dispersed throu...
Underwater Photos and Sicilian Vistas in Manhattan
Typically, people who head south for the winter, from New York to Palm Beach, are called snowbirds. But what do you call someone who makes the opposite journey? This year, that is what Chris Leidy did. He is the Palm Beach, Fla.-born, heavily-tattooed photographer grandson of the late fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer. And last Thursday, his...
Presto a East Harlem la "Vito Marcantonio Street"
A East Harlem, dove nei primi del novecento nacque la più grande Little Italy degli Stati Uniti, sarà intitolata una strada a Vito Marcantonio, il politico di origine lucana (il nonno emigrò in America da Picerno) rimasto nel cuore della gente per le sue battaglie per i diritti civili e l'integrazione dei migranti e delle minoranze etniche. L'impe...
Pappardelle, formaggi e Gattinara, le cene all’italiana di Donald Trump
di Stefano Zavagli Il menù è sempre lo stesso. Salumi e formaggi italiani, pappardelle mozzarella e pomodoro, ossobuco alla milanese. Per concludere un tiramisù. La cena della domenica in famiglia del nuovo presidente degli Stati Uniti è sulla Quinta Strada, a tre isolati dalla Trump Tower, chez ''Alfredo 100''. Elegante ristorante italian...
Griffo, Brindisi announce scholarships
UTICA — Griffo, Brindisi announce |scholarshipsState Sen. Joseph A. Griffo, R-Rome, and Assemblyman Anthony J. Brindisi, D-Utica, announced that the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators is now accepting applications for four $1,500 scholarships to be awarded June 10 at the Annual Legislative Conference Day.
NYC Restaurant Innovators Sponsored By Heineken: Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi, And Jeff Zalaznick, Michelin Meets Mulberry Street
Many consider cooking a form of art. And few would deny that what Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi are concocting in their kitchen at Torrisi is anything less than that. But they, along with their partner Jeff Zalaznick, have extended their art beyond the kitchen. What is fine dining in NYC? What can be novel or innovative in an industry drowning in...
Eastchester Italian Club Awards Scholarships
The Eastchester Italian American Citizens Club has given out eleven scholarships to graduates of both Tuckahoe and Eastchester High. Ten of the students received $1,000 and one of the graduates received $2,000 because of an outstanding essay that she had written. The scholarships were awarded at the Eastchester Italian American Citizens Cl...
'Wandering Dago' tuck truck ejected from NY race track
By Lester Haines The owners of a fast-food truck are bemoaning their ejection from a New York horse racing track, after the powers that be deemed its snappy name "Wandering Dago" a tad offensive to Italian Americans. Wandering Dago proprietors Andrea Loguidice and Brandon Snooks (pictured below) had secured a spot to sell their nosh to pu...
Rezza in Roseland: A bit of European soul
By Teresa Politano Your bread arrives with no presumption at Rezza. It's accompanied by a simple bowl of olive oil, adorned by just a smattering of sea salt. But that bread is from Sullivan Street Bakery, a New York favorite with a cultlike following, a bakery that describes its bread with reverence, in the poetry of the sommelier (nutty...