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A: My parents opened their first restaurant in 1983. I was 13 years old and had already been around restaurants before that. My mom's brother owned and operated a very popular Italian restaurant called Rugantino's on the Stamford-Darien border.   My mom purchased a rundown pizza place on Main Street in Norwalk. I washed dishes and learned ho...

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As Bruno DiFabio reflected on his career coming full circle at the new Amore Cucina & Bar in Stamford's Springdale neighborhood, the restaurant's wood-fired pizza oven basked the back of the eatery in warmth on an otherwise chilly January morning.   DiFabio, of Ridgefield, never lost the warm place in his heart for the restaurant that la...

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by Robyn Blosio Bova   The Italian Center on 1620 Newfield Ave. in Stamford, founded in 1909, was started to assist newly arrived immigrants who were adjusting to life in America. Today, the Italian Center is a very large facility on more than 28 acres with four pools, miniature golf, playground, gymnasium, fitness center, tennis and platfo...

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Nutrizionisti italiani e americani per l'affermazione della Dieta Mediterranea negli Stati Uniti. All'iniziativa partecipa anche l'Istituto Italiano di cultura di New York per il rilancio del Made in Italy presso strutture ospedaliere e centri salutistici "Credo molto che questo progetto vada proprio in direzione di un rinnovato slancio delle espo...

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By Alex Gecan   Mayor Mario Bria, of Rose, Italy, first visited Stamford in 1999. The city has changed a lot since then, he said. Bria spent an hour Tuesday with Mayor David Martin, trading gifts and pastries as representatives of a new "sister city" arrangement.   Rose, which lies close to the southern tip of Italy in the Calabr...

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Lunedì 3 settembre 2012 alle ore 11.30 presso la Sala Giunta del Palazzo della Provincia di Bari si terrà la conferenza stampa di presentazione della seconda edizione del premio "Puglia's Italy Award of Excellence in America", promosso dalla "Puglia Center of America" che si svolgerà il prossimo 9 novembre nella città Eastchester dello Stato di New...

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by Elizabeth Keyser   Fortina pizza is blistering: This new addition to Stamford contemporizes Italian American cooking with a youth Fortina is blistering! The newest addition to Harbor View in Stamford, Fortina contemporizes Italian American cooking with a youthful, hip atmosphere: loud music and a wood-fired oven that cooks more than...

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At the annual Columbus Day celebration, Alfred Fusco is a fixture as familiar as the zeppole he's become popular for serving at the downtown celebration of Italian-American heritage and culture.   But he won't be working the booth this Sunday, a first since the city's celebration started a half decade ago: Fusco has earned a place at the fro...

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Si sono riuniti nella citta' di Stamford in Connecticut i Delegati ed i Rappresentanti del Comitato Tricolore per gli italiani nel Mondo delle circoscrizioni consolari di Boston, New York/Connecticut, New Jersey, Philadelfia, aree sostanzialmente del Nord Est degli USA.I lavori sono iniziati con un minuto di silenzio in Onore di Mirko Tremaglia fon...

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Some 130 years ago Italians began to arrive in America in significant numbers. Perhaps because they came in surges and many were poor farmers or laborers with little education, desperate for work, many were stereotyped as less than intelligent, as buffoons or criminals.   Like immigrants from other places, they were marginalized. But th...

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