Italic Cooking: Let’s Nurture it with American Creativity!
Do we really need a static way of cooking that is handed down for all time? I would say definitely not. We are Italic and there are millions of American-Italians! Such a people of genius and invention would certainly not want to reject its own culinary and cultural creativity
Cucina italica: facciamola crescere per mezzo della creatività americana!
Abbiamo veramente bisogno di un modo di cucinare “immobile” e “dato per tutti i tempi”? Direi proprio di no. Siamo italici e tali sono milioni di americo-italiani! Un simile popolo di genio e d’invenzione non vorrà certo rinunciare alla sua creatività culinaria e culturale....
G8 Summit. The Obamas Visit Italy (and the Vatican)
In occasion of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, the First Family enjoyes Italy's beauties and goodies. A chronicle of their visit...with a few curiosities...
July 16, 2009
Explaining American Politics: Sonia, Jeff (and Silvio): Judicial Temperament (Temperamentos judiciales de Sonia, Jeff (y Silvio)
Jerry Krase
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born and raised in The Bronx, New York of parents who were born in Puerto Rico. This is a photo of a bakery in Rincon, Puerto Rico where my wife and I have gone several times with our children and grandchildren. It sells great empanadas. I thought it was the perfect image to celebrate the first Latina to join two Italians on the Supreme Court who share part of her Latin heritage.
In America, millions are sitting around the television and watching the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings the way they watched the recent Major League Baseball All Star Game. It is the bottom of the ninth inning and the home team is way ahead. Sonia Maria Sotomayor is up at bat and facing down the screwballing pitcher, Jeff Sessions, who has been thowing lots of junk at her. Most of America is rooting for her to hit it out of the ballpark but others, especially firefighters and gun-toting Pro-Lifers, want her to strike out.
Pope on vacation in the Italian Alps
AP. LES COMBES, Italy. The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has traveled to a village in the Italian Alps for two weeks of vacation.
It says the pontiff was flown to Turin on a plane Monday and then traveled on to Les Combes, in a region near the French border, by helicopter. (Read the Article)
Italian paratrooper killed in Afghanistan
AFP. An Italian paratrooper was killed and three were wounded Tuesday in an attack with explosives in western Afghanistan, the defence ministry said.
The device exploded when the first vehicle of the Italian convoy passed by, he said.
The death brought to 14 the number of Italian dead in Afghanistan, about half in combat. (Read the Article)
July 14, 2009
Italian Americans by the Numbers – Where we live.
US Census Department surveyor gathers information for American Community Survey
This is the second report in the series “Italian Americans by the Numbers” which appears on my ‘i-Italy.org’ blog. The series presents demographic data about Italian Americans based on the US Census Department's “2005-2007 American Community Survey (ACS)”. This report provides tables showing the ‘total number of Americans’, ‘total number of Italian Americans' and ‘percentage of Italian Americans’ living in each State, and Census Department defined Regions, Divisions and Metropolitan Areas.
July 14, 2009
Michael Jackson PrayerCard
mixed media collage by Annie Lanzillotto
Michael Jackson PrayerCard by Annie Lanzillotto
Michael Jackson Saint of Taking Off All Masks
Puglia Film Festival 2009. Italy’s Heel on the Big Screen
July 14-18. The Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY hosts Terra 3-Puglia Film Festival 2009 , an event dedicated to new cinema and emerging talents from the Region of Puglia
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