For 27 years, I had the pleasure of working in various capacities for the Cantol Chemical Co. We were a small manufacturer of specialty and industrial chemical products such as […]
UNICO Delaware holds an annual fundraiser to support the Brian Piccolo Award given each year to high school senior athletes of Italian origin. This year’s event will be held from […]
The Toracco Food Bank/Shelter Fund administered by the UNICO Foundation is available to community-established programs throughout the United States that provide food and shelter where most needed. Grants are available […]
VENEZIA –Difficile immaginare una donna più bella di Catherine Deneuve e meno vanitosa (forse è anche questa la sua vera bellezza). A lei, attrice parigina di 79 anni, che ha […]
Mamma and nonna are always on the lookout for a local sagra (sa-gra) food festival when they are searching for a new experience in Italia. Many small towns across Italy […]
The last time I wrote about Calabria was 2016, four years after spending some time with winemakers that left me wondering what the future held. What I took from my […]
Alice Pizza Authentic Roman-style pizza al taglio and Italian happy hour. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sun.-Mon.; 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Tue.-Sat. Entrees include pizza by the slice/margherita pizza, Patate Picante, Cacio e […]
This month our surname features names that begin with the letter Q. QUAGLIA – This surname derives from the Italian word “quaglia,” meaning quail. It is registered in the bureaus […]
Although Italian is the official language of Italy, it’s not widely known that the country boasts some 34 spoken languages and/or related “dialects” that can be subdivided into hundreds more. […]
One of the great festivals in Italy is Vendemmia. The grape harvest season runs from the end of August through October. If you have the opportunity, it could be the […]
Italian immigrants changed the culture and the language Argentina is home to over 1 million Italians and represents the largest population of Italians outside Italy, based on 2019 statistics from […]
An agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy to support research, entrepreneurship and trade was made official with a signing on June 16. Some of […]
The concept of “vacation” varies throughout the world and between cultures, but nowhere is the difference more apparent than between Italians and Americans. In America, if we’re lucky, we set […]
A high-school trip to Italy sparked Anthony’s Italian Coffee House in Philadelphia’s South Ninth Street Italian Market. “I fell in love with the cafe culture,” Anthony Anastasio recalled about those […]
Some 147 years ago, Italian immigrants settling in Hammonton, N.J., founded Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society, an independent nonprofit Catholic organization, as an expression of unity and gratitude for […]
In Italy, cafes’ have been part of the culture since the mid- to late 1600s. It is interesting that the cafe’ experience in Italy has been traditionally different than what […]
No stories this month about winemakers, Italy’s incredible number of grapes, specific regions, or types of wine. Just a bottle roundup, a selection of affordably satisfying wines, almost all of […]
If you’re not familiar with Bravo’s international reality television franchise, “The Real Housewives,” oh, what you’ve been missing! Documenting the real lives of a group of affluent women who live […]
I was very excited when I purchased my first new car back in 1978. Married for only a few years and not yet a father, I was able to afford […]
ROME – Screen diva Gina Lollobrigida turned 95 on July 4, saying she was determined to stay creative with the photography and art projects she turned to after her decades […]
Summer’s here and I’m curious about quali giochi (which games) mamma and Zio Roberto played during their summers nella piccolo comune siciliano di Graniti (in the little Sicilian town of […]
Alice Pizza Authentic Roman-style pizza al taglio and Italian happy hour. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sun.-Mon.; 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Tue.-Sat. Entrees include pizza by the slice/margherita pizza, Patate Picante, Cacio e […]
In the interests of continuing favorable relations with the Italian Consul General’s office in Philadelphia, Delaware Valley Italian-American Herald representatives visited the Consul General herself. From left: Charlie Tomlinson, vice […]