Recent Posts
December 1, 2007
Wines among the Ruins. Ancient vines, Ancient grapes, Ancient city, Modern wine
Foro Boario
How were wine grapes grown in Pompeii two thousand years ago? This question can be answered today.
November 25, 2007
Understanding Italian Politics: Sommeliers and Judges
What we expect from wine stewards and judges is discrimination --- the ability to make fine distinctions...
November 25, 2007
Organized Crime in Today's Italy. A Commentary
In the midst of the latest overheated political dramas over the national budget, electoral reform, and the high price of pasta, an old specter continues to haunt Italy: organized...
November 22, 2007
Giuseppe Prezzolini and the Changing Face of Italian America
Giuseppe Prezzolini was an important Italian intellectual in the first half of the 20th century. As director of Columbia's Casa Italiana and as a journalist, he had much...
November 20, 2007
Where I Come From
You, the reader, ought to know something about a blogger - his or her background, how the writer views his own Italianità, what strongly held points of view they have about...
November 19, 2007
La Spartenza – Unforgettable Suitcases
La Spartenza, a stage play directed by Enzo Toto was performed last Monday at the Italian Academy at Columbia University in New York. Teatro del Baglio di Vìllafrati, a theater....
November 19, 2007
Italian/American Cultural Philanthropy: What is cultural philanthropy and when will it come to Italian America?
A conversation on cultural philanthropy among/by Italian Americans is, I would submit, something new to bring to the table. The concept itself, we might have to admit, has yet to...
November 18, 2007
"Dobbiamo mettere in discussione chi siamo"
Foto di Adrian Paci
Intervista a Maurizio Molinari, corrispondente per La Stampa a New York. "Il nostro Paese si deve ancora abituare a qualcosa di già assodato a Londra, Parigi o Bruxelles... Il....
November 18, 2007
"Un'Italia egoista quella di oggi"
Sarah Klingeberg's photo
Roma - Notte davanti alla posta in via Marsala
Immigrazione. Alessandra Farkas, corrispondente da New York del Corriere della Sera, parla con noi dal suo ufficio sugli ultimi fenomeni di intolleranza in Italia. “Ti dico che...
November 11, 2007
Italian Passages. Thoughts from the 40th AIHA Annual Conference
The recent AHIA 40th Annual Conference eschew the language of nostalgia and “filiopietistic triumphalism” in favor of critical engagement with the complexities and...
