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ItalyMondo: finding your Italian roots

17 April, 2020

If you’re interesting in retracing your Italian background and origins in Italy, you should get in contact with Peter Farina. Voted by the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce as young entrepreneur of the year, he discovered a love of Italy…

Everybody Wants to Be Italian: film by Jason Todd Ipson on Italo-American culture

6 April, 2020

I can safely say that I have never ever seen an Italian do that kiss thing with the fingers so popular with Italian migrants, and I can dispute the claim that “Italians are known for being great lovers”. And this…

Dustin Hoffman "butchers" the Italian language: L'Infinito English translation

29 March, 2020

Dustin Hoffman speaks Italian in this video where he tries his hand at reciting a poem by famous Italian poet, Giacomo Leopardi. The poem in question is described as Leopardi’s greatest work. Called “L’infinito”, it is about eternity and from…

Danny DeVito's Limoncello: the elixir that Clooney liked

29 March, 2020

If Danny DeVito’s limoncello can convince even George Clooney, who has probably had plenty of the native version on his visits to his Lake Como villa, then we’re disposed to think well of this Italo-American adaptation of national Italian taste.Limoncello…

Roberto Saviano interview: Gomorrah and mythologising the mafia

23 March, 2020

I have yet to read Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah, the best-selling Italian book which has become a famous film. The book examines the depth of the mafia control of Italy: Italian life, Italian families, and business in this country, in a…

Gelato flavours: wine icecream in America, NOT Italy

14 March, 2020

After being accepted as not being an alcoholic bevarge, wine-flavoured gelato is now available in the US. But in Italy, at least in our office, there’s some horror as to what the rest of the world thinks of Italy. While…