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New York’s Role in the WEEK of Italian Cuisine at the Program’s Tenth Edition

In 2025, the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World reaches its tenth edition, reaffirming its scale as one of the most far-reaching initiatives dedicated to promoting Italy’s food and wine heritage abroad. Since its establishment in 2016, following the themes introduced during Expo Milano 2015, it has built a clear international narrative around the […]

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“Italy that builds the future”: Federmanager marks its 80th anniversary

At the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome, the National Assembly celebrated the Federation’s 80th anniversary, with speeches from ministers, institutional representatives, and political leaders. “We are asking the Government for an extraordinary plan to introduce managerial structures in 20,000 small and medium-sized enterprises over the next ten years, in order to double the number of Italian

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Big Apple Film Festival Returns to Manhattan with a Global Independent Slate

The Big Apple Film Festival returns to Manhattan this fall with a lineup that once again confirms its reputation as one of the city’s most vital showcases for independent cinema. Hosted at Look Dine-In Cinemas on West 57th Street, the 2025 Fall Edition brings together filmmakers from New York and across the globe for four

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A Life of Service and Faith: The Community’s Heartfelt Tribute to Monsignor Hilary Franco

At “Il Capriccio” in Whippany, the lights were warm, the conversations lively, and the air filled with a quiet sense of gratitude. On Sunday, October 26, the Italian American community of New Jersey gathered to honor a man who has spent seventy years serving God and others: Monsignor Hilary Franco. The celebration, organized by the

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Italy Marks 70 Years at the United Nations with a Concert for Peace in New York

On a quiet Friday evening in downtown Manhattan, the Old Saint Patrick’s Cathedral opened its doors to an unusual diplomatic gathering. Instead of speeches or resolutions, the message came through music. The event, titled Concert for Peace, was organized by the Military Office of the Italian Permanent Mission to the United Nations — a branch

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Don Luigi Portarulo among the ten Lucanians to receive the Heraclea Award

On Sunday, August 10, Piazza Eraclea in Policoro will host the fourteenth edition of the Heraclea Award, created by set designer Mario Carlo Garrambone and organized by the Lucania Storica – Novitalia association, chaired by Francesco Calderaro. The event, founded to highlight Lucanians who have distinguished themselves in Italy and abroad, has over time become

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Hollywood Is Falling in Love with Real Italian Stories

After the critical success of Cabrini—the powerful biopic of the first American saint, Italian-born Francesca Cabrini—audiences and critics alike have shown that there’s a hunger for Italian stories that go beyond the usual tropes. Directed by Alejandro Monteverde and produced by Oscar-winner Jonathan Sanger and J. Eustace Wolfington , Cabrini tells the story of a

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Vittorio Giordano: “This is how we educate the customer’s palate about truffles.”

Urbani Tartufi is the number one brand in the United States, a super excellence, which we have the pleasure of talking about, here at our box at Summer Fancy Food, with Vittorio Giordano, the company’s vice president. How did you earn this place in such a competitive market? We have to thank previous generations of

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“Italian living is our true Made in Italy”: interview with Marco Bruschini from Fancy Food

From tourism to institutional communication, Marco Buschini now leads the promotion of the Ministry of Agriculture between products, culture, lifestyle and international relations. We met him at Fancy Food in New York to talk about taste diplomacy, territorial storytelling and the value – including political value – of our cuisine in the world. Let us

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