New Deadline is March 1, 2016, for 2016-2017.
Since NIAF’s inception 40 years ago, the scholarship program has grown from four scholarships of $250 each to dozens of annual scholarships ranging in value from $2,000 to $12,000, each in the Italian language and culture, medicine, engineering, business, law, music, and other specialized fields.
American students of Italian American Committee on Education (IACE) visit the Ferrari showroom in Manhattan to learn Italian while designing the car of their dreams
Here's a dog treat that will make your tail wag. When Best Friends pulled Blanca from a Los Angeles shelter, she was filthy. They wasted no time in arranging an extreme makeover, transforming her into a dog that was irresistible.
Here's a dog treat that will make your tail wag. When Best Friends pulled Blanca from a Los Angeles shelter, she was filthy. They wasted no time in arranging an extreme makeover, transforming her into a dog that was irresistible.
Ottanta produttori di vino provenienti da tutta Italia, giornalisti e consumatori. Si è aperta il 3 febbraio nella sala dell’Highline Ballroom di New York la quinta edizione di Vino 2016 - Italian Wine Week, la più importante manifestazione di promozione del vino italiano negli Stati Uniti promossa dall'agenzia ICE. Una festa del vino italiano che proseguirà per una settimana con seminari, dibattiti, tasting e che servirà a fare il punto sull’andamento del vino italiano nel mercato americano.
“Italy is not a military or financial superpower, but it is a cultural, oenological and gastronomic empire.” With this compelling statement, Maurizio Forte, Trade Commissioner & Executive Director for the US of the Italian Trade Commission has officially launched, in a special event & press conference held on February 3rd at the Highline Ballroom, Vino 2016 - Italian Wine Week, the greatest Italian wine event ever held in the United States.
Acclaimed New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov writes three columns—The Pour, Wines of the Times and Wine School—in which he explores a specific type of wine each month. Part memoir and part manifesto, his latest book How to Love Wine tells the story of how he went from writing beer reviews for his high school newspaper to becoming America’s most trusted wine critic.
Luciano Pignataro, a journalist for Naples’ Il Mattino—the leading newspaper in Southern Italy—has spent the last thirty years writing about agriculture and the last twenty about enogastronomy. His is the longest running column on wine in an Italian paper. He is the representative of two southern regions for Slow Wine, Slow Food’s wine guide, and head of the Southern branch of the Guida Ristoranti Espresso. In 2004 he began a blog (www.lucianopignataro.it), now one of the most frequented in Italy, with almost five million hits in 2015 alone.
February is the month of Italian Wine Week in New York City. Organized by the Italian Trade Commission, the fair brings together hundreds of producers, buyers and importers plus dozens of experts, wine critics, journalists and bloggers in the industry.Among them is a handful of top-level representatives of Eataly, including co-founder and partner Lidia Bastianich, International Head Buyer Dino Borri, and Beverage Director Dan Amatuzzi. We recently sat down with the latter, a young New Yorker of Italian origin and a rising star in the world of food & wine.
Wine expert Charles Scicolone explains why Sourhern Italian wines have long been undervalued and not well known in the US. First, they are made from unusual grape varieties that are not recognized by most consumers. Second, most American tourists used to visit Northern and Central Italy and had little chance to sample these wines in the places they are made. The situation, however is changing as more and more customers are coming to realize that these are high quality wines—and they go very well with food!