Happy Birthday Marcella!!!
Marcella Hazan has done to Italian cuisine in America, what Julia Child has done for French cuisine. The celebration of what would have been the ninetieth birthday of Hazan was also a launch and a nationwide fundraised for The Marcella Hazan Scholarship at the ICC, which will provide funding to students at he ICC's Italian Chef Course in the name of the legendary cook.
Pope Francis kisses feet of women and Muslim man in Maundy Thursday rite
Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 disabled people – several of them women and one a Muslim man – as he brought his inclusive touch to a Maundy Thursday rite restricted to men under previous pontiffs.
April 17, 2014
H-ItAm Resurrected as a web-based discussion/announcement forum
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After almost 20 years H-ItAm has a new look and new protocol.
H-itam is back as a website based site to exchange academic announcements, discussion, job posts etc. Subscribers can post directly to the site for approval by the editor. Reaches about 400 members.Try it, you'll like it!
Tra vetro di Murano, poesia e lingua italiana
Un pomeriggio presso l'Università di Fairfield insieme al Console Generale di New York, Natalia Quintavalle. Una visita alla struttura, un incontro con professori e studenti di Italiano e l'inagurazione della mostra: "La Ragnatela" / "Spiderweb" , Vetro di murano e trasparenze di luce: se amate l'arte di Giampaolo Seguso, figlio della secolare dinastia dei maestri vetrai di Murano non perdetela
Celebrating The Canonization of Two Popes in New York
April 27th at 7 pm at the Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Italy and Poland come together for the celebration of the Popes John XXIII and John Paul II.
2 pontefici. 2 canonizzazioni. Tutti 'Happy" per una grande festa
Roma si prepara ad accogliere un flusso di pellegrini senza precedenti in arrivo da tutto il mondo per un evento davvero speciale: la canonizzazione di Papa Giovanni XXIII e di Papa Giovanni Paolo II, il prossimo 27 aprile. Tantissime le iniziative ed ecco uscire in rete una nuova versione di “Happy”, appena sfornata per la canonizzazione, che vede suore, preti, giovani, catechisti, tutti a ballare per le strade della Capitale e nelle loro parrocchie con le foto dei due Papi.
Frida. Viva e affascinante. Indimenticabile magica artista e donna
Alle scuderie del Quirinale più di 40 dipinti di soggetti diversi della straordinaria Frida Kahlo. Autoritratti e ritratti, paesaggi messicani e nature morte, di solito sparsi in musei e gallerie di tutto il mondo
April 16, 2014
The Waiting Begins: H1B Cap Reached. USCIS to conduct lottery.
U.S. companies are quite literally taking a gamble when they seek to hire a foreign national temporarily. They need to place their bets 6 months before the date of hire. If that doesn’t work, they can try again next year, and the year after that. The congressional limit on the number of H1Bs available each year just doesn’t make sense for corporate America. We need to enable the U.S. economy to grow and if that means allowing U.S. companies to hire foreign nationals when needed, then the hiring process should not be reduced to a lottery.
An Interview with Nicky Persico
Author of the intriguing and informative "smart thriller," Spaghetti Paradiso
In Italy's Easter Basket
Italy's Easter basket is filled with treasures, but they come with problems, and even the basket is fraying. Underlying the problems is, as this reporter has written repeatedly, the abundance of the Italian cultural heritage. Nowhere is this more visible than at Pompeii, whose years of moral and physical lapses are taken by some outsiders, perhaps erroneously, as a sad metaphor for the country itself. But there are good eggs in that basket too.
Zucchero Fornaciari, “You’ll Be One of a Kind”
The origins, the first trip to America, and more. An exclusive interview with the artist before his Americana Tour.
Rizzoli Bookstore May Be Better Off Elsewhere
On Wednesday afternoon, two days before its scheduled closing, Rizzoli Bookstore was crowded with the sort of people who, never especially populous in Midtown Manhattan, appear even more like icicles in the desert: gray-haired women with Mohawks or turbans, students, men with indifferent facial grooming, older citizens.
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