Drew’s Pastry Place Chef/Owner to Star on “Bakery Boss” National TV Show
Houston's own Chef Andrew "Drew" Rogers, pastry chef and owner of Drew's Pastry Place in Northwest Houston, goes head-to-head with "Cake Boss" reality TV star Buddy Valastro on the new TLC show, "Bakery Boss," (Mondays, 9 p.m. C.S.T.) set to air January 20, 2014 (date subject to change). On the "Bakery Boss" series, Buddy's mission is to h...
Parliamone: L’italiano come risorsa: se ne discute mercoledì 29 gennaio alla Farnesina
L'italiano come risorsa, e come strumento centrale per la promozione dell'Italia e della sua cultura. Se ne discuterà nell'incontro "Parliamone: l'italiano come risorsa" in programma alla Sala delle Conferenze Internazionali della Farnesina mercoledì 29 gennaio, a partire dalle ore 10. Interverranno in qualità di relatori il Ministro degli...
For Authentic Italian Recipes, Cook With Grazia, Founder of the Italian School of Portland
by Mauro Battocchi I want to call your attention to a fantastic Italian chef and food writer in Portland, who not only excels at the art of cooking itself, but also at promoting the Italian cuisine through new media. Grazia Solazzi grew up in Northern Italy (Asola) and learned cooking directly from her family members, who donned the dinner...
Cheap Eats: Ferro’s is filling fast-food Italian
by Toni Ruberto The new Ferro's Famous New York Pizza anchors a corner in a small strip mall that includes one of those national health clubs that are popping up everywhere. In essence, you could have a healthy workout and then chow down guilt-free on your choice of fast-food Italian off the Ferro's menu. The restaurant is run by...
Colloquium on Dialects in Italian Literature and Culture, 1500-1800 at Dartmouth College
Italian dialects, or regional vernaculars, have played a significant role in the development of the Italian literary tradition since its origins. In the words of Gianfranco Contini, "Italian literature is the only major national literature whose dialect production viscerally and inseparably forms a corpus with the rest of its patrimony."
La consulente italiana degli chef Usa: «A New York? Va la trippa in umido»
By Andrea Marinelli Odette Fada non ha mai amato gli americani, ma ha voluto insegnare loro come si mangia italiano. Nata in provincia di Brescia, arrivata a Los Angeles nel 1988 per fare la chef, oggi vive a New York e lavora come consulente per imprenditori che vogliono aprire ristoranti italiani negli Stati Uniti: il suo è il tocco italiano nei...
Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis Kicks Off This Weekend
Which should be exciting news for those unaware we even had an annual Italian Film Festival here in St. Louis. We do, and it's been going on for ten years now. It's not well-promoted in general but it must be in the local Italian community because I've attended on the past and they always draw huge crowds (the free admission probably doesn't hurt)....
Restaurant Review: Roberta's
Artisanal everything has become somewhat of a Brooklyn stereotype, the stuff of gentle mockery in Simon Rich stories and episodes of HBO's Girls. I no longer ask if the Kool-Aid is locally-powdered and house-diluted when dining out, because I know it is and that the waitstaff is drinking gallons of it. So it's with a certain skepticism tha...
L'appuntamento della Aiae. Parata di eccellenze italiane
In occasione del XVI appuntamento annuale della Association of Italian American Educators, tenutosi domenica presso lo Chateau Briant a Carle Place a Long Island, hanno fatto pervenire messaggi augurali il presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano, il governatore Andrew Cuomo, l'ambasciatore a Washington Claudio Bisogniero e quello alle Nazion...
Positively Philadelphia: The Italian Market Festival Returns
The Italian Market Festival is Saturday and Sunday, May 17th and 18th. But this year, the huge block party offers something new. "For this first time ever, St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Church will be open to historic tours," says Michelle Gambino, business manager of the South Ninth Street Shopping District. Read more Source: ...
A Tale of Two Families
By Ryan Colella The words "military" and "Indiana" scared me at first. I could not imagine myself in a state that felt foreign when my parents told me they were sending me, a lifelong New Yorker, to a military academy in Culver, Indiana. Eventually, the sweet words of a familiar, but foreign language, "Oofah! Cocoa Bella! Mangia!"...
Italian good news: Save money on fuel, the app
WTI Magazine #36 2014 June, 25Author : buonennotizie.it Translation by: Given the economic crisis our country is in, more and more Italians try to find ways to save money. Cars are one of the assets which has suffered more the current situation: in order to save money, many people sell their cars and opt for public transport.