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The agnolotti are having a good time, sliding around in saffron-streaked butter sweetened with honey. Pudgy and thin-skinned, each one is full of softly tangy sheep's milk cheeses.   It's hard to say what's more delicious: Could be this, or could be the chewy malfadini in fat, crimped ribbons, tangled up with heaps of Parmigiano, buzzing sof...

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by Susan Jensen   Patricio Tasisto's photographic art exhibit introduced me to a word and concept missing from English. Saudade – pronounced "Saugh-dah-jey" is a word unique to Portuguese. It means a deep yearning for a loved one who is absent or dead, or longing for something profound that is missing in one's life. What an important a...

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Pur essendo a primavera inoltrata la processione notturna del Venerdì Santo nella zona di Bensonhurst in Brooklyn era accompagnata da un leggero freddo che non ha certo raffreddato i cuori delle migliaia di italiani, che hanno rivissuto la Via Crucis con canti, preghiere, letture evangeliche accompagnate da brani religiosi da parte del complesso ba...

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New York is not just Manhattan, and one who understood very well this is Laura Caparrotti, Roman by birth and New Yorker by adoption, who last year created "In scena! Italian Theater festival NY" that brings the Italian theater in all 5 boroughs of New York City: Manhattan as well as also the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. The 2014 edi...

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Dopo il successo della prima video-intervista a Marco Casella pubblicata la scorsa settimana sul nostro portale, nella giornata odierna vi mostreremo quella all’Avvocato ed imprenditore Riccardo Pieroni.   Riccardo arriva in America per motivi di studio dopo la laurea e dal 2010, si trasferisce a New York lavorando come manager nel settore...

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by Andrew Cotto   You would have a hard time finding a better representative of Old Brooklyn than Frank Codispoti. A barber who immigrated to New York when he was 18 from the town of Sant'Andrea in the southern Italian region of Calabria, Mr. Codispoti has cut hair in Brooklyn for more than 40 years.   So it might seem somewhat jarrin...

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Acadia Realty Trust and Washington Square Partners, co-developers of City Point, announced that Fortina, the brainchild of chef Christian Petroni, has signed a 15-year, 4,612-s/f lease to bring "straight forward Italian food" to the 1.8 million-square-foot destination in Downtown Brooklyn. Slated to open in the Fall of 2016, Fortina will be ho...

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Two of the five New York borroughs, Queens and Brooklyn, are not only part of New York, but also part of Long Island, at least officially: even so, usually when somebody refers to Long Island thinks about Nassau and Suffolk Counties, not the Queens or Kings (Brooklyn) County.   Long Island is home to many, many Italian Americans. One of them know...

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By Chloe Chetner   A young girl from New York stole the show at a recent Brooklyn Cyclones baseball game with this stirring rendition of the Italian and American national anthems. Dina Marie Paunetto sang the anthems as the Cyclones celebrated Italian heritage night at MCU park. Check out the impressive Dina in the video.  ...

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Oltre 600 forme di Parmigiano Reggiano sono state aperte contemporaneamente in altrettanti punti vendita (dagli Usa alla Gran Bretagna, al Canada) della catena Whole Foods, che ha dedicato al "re" dei formaggi l'edizione 2014 dell'evento "Crack Heard Around the World".   Il via alla spettacolare manifestazione è stato lanciato dal punto vend...

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