Fiocco nero sulla "rosa gialla del Texas"
"The Yellow Rose of Texas" è una famosa canzone della guerra di secessione USA. Oggi la rosa gialla ha un fiocco nero e la rugiada sono le lacrime. Clara Vick, classe 1931, di Dimmitt, Texas, è deceduta il 1° ottobre 2017 ad Amarillo. Presidente della Castro County Texas Historical Commission e grande amica dei prigionieri italiani non cooperatori...
How to turn your invention into a billion-dollar success
You’ll hit a million obstacles before you can even dream of becoming a millionaire. Roadblocks were the very things that kept Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop and more than $3 billion worth of successful products, moving forward. She details her journey in her relatable new book “Inventing Joy,” out Nov. 7. “I wasn’t wealthy in any form...
The man behind Little Italy's revitalization on how the neighborhood is getting back on the map
Joshua DeVincenzi Melander, president of the Little Italy neighborhood association, is the man behind the revitalization of the tiny Italian neighborhood in downtown San Jose. Earlier this month, popular Los Gatos Italian restaurant Enoteca La Storiaexpanded with a second location, opening in the historic storefront at 320 W. St John St. in Little...
Portland's 10 best Italian restaurants
Portland loves Italian food. Want proof? Just look at the impressive variety on display, from red-sauce spots pouring 20-year-old Barolos to food carts with wide sheets of uncut pasta drying in the windows. There's Tuscan both rustic and refined, lunchtime pasta counters where everything is scratch-made, and trattorias with PHDs in wood-fired cooke...
Trade - US set to become Italian shoes’ top destination
The US will become Italy’s top market for footwear exports by 2022, according to Confidustria, the General Confederation of Italian Industry, reports Leatherbiz. It is currently the fourth biggest in terms of exports, but these are predicted to grow 43% in value to €1.7 billion in five years. “The US has always been an important but complex market,...
Italian goes to the movies
When: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - Entrance: Free Have you ever noticed people speaking Italian in non-Italian films and wondered why? Italian crops up in all sorts of ways you might expect related to food, opera, Italy's glorious history and some you might not. Come along as we...
Return trip to Italy: You can recapture travel magic
I was at the counter of a tony café in Turin when I had a moment. Looking around the elegant coffee bar, I felt swaddled in Italian opulence -- and immersed in Italy. The woman next to me was warning the barman about cold drinks. As an Italophile, I recognized the conversation as one that could only happen in Italy. The perceived danger of somethin...
Tasting Italy from tip to toe
A patchwork of patterns, an undulating green quilt of vineyards sloping and soaring, lifting and pouring: the first time a wine lover sees Barolo his or her heart leaps with the landscape. Barolo the wine I had of course sipped before, but before this summer never had I tasted Barolo the wine region. As an oenophile the omission skirts on the sinfu...
Pasquale Esposito at Museo Italo Americano
When: Tuesday, November 2, at 6:30pm - Where: Museo Italo Americano, Fort Mason Bldg C – San Francisco, CA 94123 - What: The Leonardo Da Vinci Society Cordially invites you to join us to celebrate Enrico Caruso with Pasquale Esposito! Pasquale Esposito is a professional vocalist who has been entertaining audiences In the Bay Area, other metropolita...
Frank Bonanno Joins The Food Hall Trend
Food halls/markets are a familiar sight in metro Denver these days, with the Source, Avanti Food & Beverage, Denver Central Market, and Stanley Marketplace all opening over the past few years; Zeppelin Station is also set to enter the scene in December. But when Denver Milk Market debuts in LoDo’s Dairy Block development next summer, it will featur...
Tiziana Rinaldi Castro, “l’italiana d’America” che racconta l’esotica New York
Rompe gli argini. Attraversa mondi. Si inserisce tra culture diverse. Supera l’oceano. Ma ritrova sempre la strada. Con sofferenza e meraviglia. Con incanto e lucidità. Uno scrigno che custodisce tutto. I profumi speziati di Harlem. Gli odori del Sud. I suoni dei dialetti. Il sudore della fatica. Tre protagonisti e un’autrice che, come una perfetta...
Meet the New Italian Restaurant in LoHi
LoHi lands a new Italian restaurant with the opening of Marcella’s Ristorante, Pizzeria & Wine Bar. The 152-seat restaurant features room for another 40 on the patio. Customers can receive a voucher for free valet parking starting at 5 p.m. or pay $7 without validation. The restaurant gets its name from a house manager and cook at a villa in Tusc...