More than museums and monuments: Colorful festivals, parades and concerts celebrate Italy’s history and culture each June
June is a great month to visit Italy. It is the high season and the country will be crowded with Italian and international visitors, but it is not normally as hot as July and August. For those who want to experience the history and culture beyond visiting monuments and museums, Italy has a long list of events for all to enjoy. June is an important...
Seafood takes a main seat at Azzurro Italian Coastal Cuisine
Shades of blue and white are reflected throughout the interior of Azzurro, a new concept from the local restaurateur Enrique Orioli meant to transport visitors to the Amalfi coast and experience the tastes of Italy.“That’s the beauty of Italian cuisine. You know, you let the fresh ingredients speak for themselves, and that’s what we’re trying to hi...
Rome’s Newest Museum: Museo Dell’Arte Salvata
Rome’s newest museum, the Museo dell’Arte Salvata, gives the public a unique chance to see repatriated ancient artifacts before they head to their final destinations across the country. The Museo dell’Arte Salvata (Museum for Rescued Art) was established last year as a branch of the National Roman Museum. It is a revolving showcase of “salvaged” ar...
Sedona Film Fest presents ‘The Eight Mountains’ premiere June 2-8
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Eight Mountains” showing June 2-8 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, “The Eight Mountains” — winner of the Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival — is a landmark...
Gardens of Italy, greenery and slow pace journeys
The sea and the Alps. Among them, a floral heritage of six hundred thousand species. A quantitative and qualitative excellence of biodiversity, the one that cloaks the villages and cities of Italy, due to numerous variables: the nature of the soil, for example, or the winds and rainfall, or even "the connection" to the continent and a rather calm s...
River Oaks District’s Hot New Italian Restaurant Brings a Beautiful Crowd Out: Bari Ristorante Is a Chic Palace
In the end, I was delighted that I couldn’t make this particular restaurant’s opening night fête. I was already booked when the invitation to party at Bari Ristorante, the sizzling new upscale Italian restaurant in River Oaks District, arrived in my in-box. The result was that I was invited the previous night for the full on dining experience. And...
Inser guide to Trentino
Incredible as it may seem, I am standing beneath a torrent of two 40-metre waterfalls created by the Romans thousands of years ago. The Orrido Canyon, just outside Trento is a spectacular narrow limestone gorge some 40 metres high created by the Fersina River on its way down from the Alpine peaks and it is unmissable. The Romans quickly realised th...
Little Italy Historic District
Cities as diverse and far-flung as San Francisco, London and Melbourne have a neighborhood they call Little Italy. Now, Sacramento has one, too. In late 2021, the city council adopted a resolution designating a portion of East Sacrament —the area bounded by Folsom Boulevard and 48th, 59th and J streets—as Little Italy, in recognition of the role It...
The Italian food supply chain's turnover tops €179BN
The food industry is now Italy’s number one manufacturing industry, according to the latest data from the first Federalimentare-Censis report. With €179 billion in annual turnover, 60 thousand companies, 464 thousand employees, and more than €50 billion in export sales by value, the sector also ranks second in Italy in terms of number of companies,...
Ferraro Foods Adding New Long Island Distribution Center
On May 23, Piscataway, New Jersey-based Ferraro Foods — one of the largest specialty distributors of food and foodservice supplies to Italian restaurants and pizzerias in the U.S. — announced a major expansion of its Long Island distribution business. Ferraro said it plans to add a 230,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center at 80 Wilshir...
The great Italian pop music, Fabrizio De André
You say Fabrizio De André, and you think Bocca di rosa, or Don Raffaè, or that sleepy fisherman in the shadow of the last sun or even in Genoa that is the background to his stories sung. Or to his beloved Sardinia, where he had chosen to live, where he was kidnapped and where he returned to live because as he said about that land: “I feel more peas...
Sebastian Maniscalco Says Italian Americans Are Like Dolphins
Here’s a fun fact – a Bottlenose Dolphin can hold its breath for up to twenty minutes, which is the same amount of time Sebastian Maniscalco can go without reminding someone that he’s Italian. Maniscalco’s screenwriting debut, the culture-clash comedy About My Father co-starring Robert De Niro, is slated to premiere this Friday.