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With the goal of promoting Italian culinary traditions and food-and-wine connoisseurship as a distinctive trait of Italian identity and culture, the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World reaches its second edition, which will take place in San Francisco and the Bay Area November 13-19, 2017. The concept of the initiative is based on a few key points...

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Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Garibaldi-Meucci Museum | 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305. Members: $5; Non-Members: $15. Join NOIAW member and native Staten Islander Dawn Marie Hayes, Associate Professor of European History at Montclair State University, for a presentation of the land of many of our forebears. Learn abo...

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The 1st of November is a national holiday in Italy, known as Tutti i Santi or Ognissanti, which celebrates all saints and is followed by All Souls Day on the 2nd of November, a day devoted to honor loved ones who have passed away. Il Giorno dei Morti begins at dawn with a somber Mass for the dead, offering prayers and alms for the deceased. After M...

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In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, I talk with actor Michael Badalucco, a passionate Italian-American and a really funny guy who has had some big success in his acting career and is also very involved in the Italian American community. In the stories segment, I will tell you a story about something that just happened to me that was a...

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While waiting for the first container of the Gustoso products, which is expected to reach the United States on February 2018, the managers of the project Daniele Cipollina and Paolo Internicola and the representatives of the businesses which have joined the network will land in New York. The framework event is called ‘The Best Italy’ and is organis...

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An ambitious network gathering 12 Sicilian businesses under a single brand (Gustoso Sicilian Food Excellence) has formed with the objective of conquering US retail shelves and taking Sicilian food businesses overseas. How? By raising the interest of consumers who usually buy niche products exalting their authenticity, history and tradition and prom...

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E’ stato presentato questa mattina nell’aula consiliare di Palazzo delle Aquile il nuovo progetto “Gustoso”, ideato per mettere in rete i valori culturali della filiera agroalimentare siciliana e sostenere la produzione di qualità e la consapevolezza alimentare. “Con il brand Gustoso – spiega Daniele Cipollina founder Gustoso Sicilian Food Excellen...

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Quattro mesi fa l'annuncio del sindaco Giangiacomo Palazzolo: "Ad ottobre una nuova via collegherà il centro abitato di Cinisi a Piano Peri. Porterà il nome di chi ha reso possibile l'opera, Paolo Butera, cinisense emigrato in America dove ha fatto fortuna che ha deciso di finanziarla". Promessa rispettata: stamattina la strada è stata inaugurata....

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Dark, bitter and gritty: it might not be everyone’s cup of cocoa, but Sicilian chocolate is certainly unique. Now Italian artisans are seeking European protection for the distinctive chocolate made in the town of Modica, near the southern tip of Sicily. One of the region’s representatives in the national Chamber of Deputies, Nino Minardo, has appea...

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November 3-4, 2017Marines’ Memorial Theatre, San FranciscoEven before their rapid conquest of England in 1066, Norman knights arrived in Saracen-controlled Sicily. Pretending to serve as mercenaries variously to the Lombards, the local lords of Benevento or the Byzantines, they plotted long-term opportunities for themselves in Sicily. Those who fou...

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