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Una vita passata a promuovere la letteratura italiana in America. Catanese, arrivata New York da bambina, Olga Ragusa fece conoscere agli americani autori come i suoi conterranei Luigi Pirandello, Giuseppe Verga e Tomasi di Lampedusa, ma anche, più di recente, l’Umberto Eco del «Nome della Rosa». Professoressa emerita di italiano a Columbia, presid...

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M.S. Walker has announced that it is introducing Amaro dell’Etna, a Sicilian digestif that has been produced near Mt. Etna in Italy for more than 100 years, into the U.S. market. Amaro dell’Etna has its roots, both literally and figuratively, on the slopes of Mt. Etna, where more than twenty-six native herbs and aromatic plants used to craft this s...

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It's not often that restaurants, especially popular ones, get a head-to-toe menu revamp. But a culinary overhaul seemed appropriate for Sud Italia Ristorante when it hired Maurizio Ferrarese, former executive chef of Quattro at the Four Seasons Hotel Houston, as the head toque of the Rice Village restaurant. Just over a month into his new stint as...

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A Providence comedian, actor, and writer is headed to New York City for a 10-day run of his one-man-play, "The Last Sicilian." Nick Albanese grew up the son of Sicilian immigrants on Charles Street in Providence, with the whole family living on the second floor above his father's bakery, and rolls those funny but true-life experiences into his show...

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Martedì 2 gennaio Daniele Cipollina fondatore e Presidente di Gustoso Sicilian Food Experience - l’impresa ambiziosa che ha riunito undici importanti aziende del Food siciliano sotto un unico brand per conquistare gli scaffali della grande distribuzione degli Stati Uniti, il primo acquirente al mondo di prodotti agroalimentari, dagli studi di Saxa...

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Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 2:30pm–4:15pm - Italian Charities of America  83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, New York 11373. Are you of Sicilian Descent? OR just interested in Sicilian? Come join us for Sicilian Language lessons. We will have a native Sicilian to teach you from beginner level, you will learn the language; reading, writing and speakin...

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"The element that makes us stand out is the fact that our clients can create their own personalised crates on our website with oranges, lemons and other typical niche products. I inherited the passion for working the land from my family and I'm also studying to become an agronomist at the University of Catania," explains Giuseppe Larosa, owner of S...

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My thoughts on eating meatballs outside one's home are well-documented, and they are not mild. The spirit of my last meatball-focused story together with my meatball-eating philosophy would seem to predict utter failure for all future meatball spots to come. This one, though, promises to be different. The Sicilian Butcher is the latest restaurant...

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È ad Atlantic City, nel New Jersey, che il 15 aprile 2007 nasce, per volontà di Vincenzo Arcobelli – presidente del Comites, di Houston e dell’Intercomites degli Stati Uniti – la CSNA, Confederazione Siciliana del Nord America. L’evento è stata una preziosa occasione per riunire le associazioni di origine e ispirazione siciliana in Nord America. “L...

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Quando sono arrivati a Palermo era il 1990: un piccolo trauma per i fratellini che dall'imponente America si sono dovuti confrontare con una cultura, una lingua, un mondo diverso. Oggi Gabriella e Michael sono i protagonisti di una storia di "migranti al contrario": dopo la scuola sono tornati a vivere negli Stati Uniti ma poi il legame con la Sici...

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