President Bonaccini of Emilia Romagna Leads Business Delegation to the Bay Area
Today I am honored to welcome to San Francisco the President of Emilia Romagna Stefano Bonaccini who is arriving with a large business delegation that has a strong focus on agro-tech as well as other industries. Over the course of the delegation's visit for the next ten days, ten Emilia-Romagna start-ups, of which five belonging to the food sector,...
New online store offers authentic gourmet Italian amaretti cookies
Just in time for the holidays, a new Sarasota company is bringing the taste, tradition and style of Italy to America with a new website focused entirely on fresh-baked amaretti, the Mediterranean country's trademark cookie. Mia Bella opened its virtual doors in October, offering six amaretti cookie varieties baked to order daily and using...
Lake Como Rises Again
Lake Como, tucked against Italy's border with Switzerland, has been home to ancient Roman grandees, Renaissance cardinals, Milanese industrialists and, most recently, to Russian billionaires and actor George Clooney. Now, with the dollar rising, a new wave of American buyers is taking an interest in the area. The lake, about 40 miles long,...
Made-In-Italy Startup Develops Vertical Veggies Technology
Italian startup Veve, a food-focused startup that wowed crowds at the Expo Milano 2015, has developed an ultra efficient system for the growth of vegetables in vertical rows that uses aeroponics technology. The technology allows 200 plants to be cultivated in one square meter, the equivalent of a traditional vegetable garden that is 20 square meter...
Genova come Ellis Island, un passo avanti per il museo delle migrazioni
di Massimo Minella Nascerà nel porto di Genova, la "Ellis Island" italiana, tempio laico che omaggia la storia della nostra emigrazione, ricordandoci ogni giorno quando eravamo noi a salire sulle barche e cercare rifugio dall'altra parte del mondo, fuggendo da miseria e disperazione. Un passo avanti forse definitivo è stato comp...
Magione, la famiglia dell'aviatore Usa salvato dai pescatori dona bandiera americana al sindaco
La bandiera americana posta sulla bara del padre, uno degli omaggi più importanti che l'America tributa ai propri militari, è stata donata al comune di Magione dai parenti dell'aviatore americano Joseph Adrian Gately. Gately, durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, fu salvato dai pescatori di Sant'Arcangelo dopo che l'aereo su cui era in ricognizione c...
Transatlantico - CD Release Concert by Emanuele Tozzi
January 23, 2016 (Saturday) 8:00 PM. Transatlantico - CD Release Concert by Emanuele Tozzi. Le Poisson Rouge - 158 Bleecker Street, Manhattan. Emanuele Tozzi brings a modernistic touch of the Old World to New York City. His sound has been likened to a Fellini soundtrack highlighted with chocolate notes; combining jazz with fragm...
IAWA’s Open Reading Series – Saturday, February 13, 2016 – Open Mic plus Features Chiara Montalto Giannini & Frank Polizzi
The Italian American Writers Association will celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2016. Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its literary series every second Saturday of the months. Readings begin with an Open Mic: IAWA-East is held even months at Sidewalk Café and IAWA-West continues at Cornelia Street Café on odd months. V...
Coffee World Mourns Inventor of the Moka, Renato Bialetti
Renato Bialetti, son of the founder of the Italian cookware company Bialetti, died on Wednesday at the age of 93. He spent the last years of his life in Ascona, Switzerland. Every Italian home and millions more across the world has a Moka pot. Invented in 1933 by Luigi di Ponti the design was acquired by Alfonso Bialetti, an aluminium speciali...
Jodi's Italian Ice planning to open in Munster
by Joseph S. Pete A local chain of Italian Ice parlors is going to serve up its popular Philadelphia-style "water ice" in what was once a popular spot for frozen yogurt in Munster. Jodi's Italian Ice Factory, which says it's the largest Italian Ice manufacturer in the Midwest, will move into the former Eyepad Optical that closed recen...
Kansas City travelblog: The traditional trip to Garozzo's
We walked into Garozzo's on Tuesday night, and inside of 10 seconds I heard the booming voice of Mike Garozzo. "My favorite sportswriter!" roared my favorite restauranteur. I have no illusions that Garozzo has studied the issue and declared me superior to Joe Posnanski or Mike Lupica. It's plenty enough for me that Garozzo keeps running hi...
Hall of Fame broadcaster Joe Garagiola dies at age 90
By Dave Lumia Hall of Fame broadcaster Joe Garagiola died Wednesday morning following an unparalleled career in baseball spanning from his playing days in the 1940s to his role as a D-backs broadcaster on FOX Sports Arizona through 2013. Garagiola had a nine-year Major League career before gravitating to the broadcast booth, where his...