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One of my earliest recollections of my father’s town in southern Italy was at nine-years old. The town of approximately 12,000 inhabitants is called Mugnano del Cardinale and it is surrounded by the Irpini Mountains, located just 45 miles from …

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La vignetta fece storia: raffigurava negli anni Settanta una cabina telefonica rigorosamente a gettoni (all’epoca cellulari, Iphone e tablet erano pura astrazione) con, affisso sulla cornetta, il cartello “chiuso per ferie”. Un’esagerazione, ovviamente, ma che, all’epoca, rendeva l’idea. Le ferie …

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Not many people can lay claim to the distinction of being honored by their city with a day being named after them.  You can if you are an extraordinary person like James Cardinale Hill.  On June 30, 2004 the city …

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Since the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup, one thing that’s always been clear in the strategy of the Italian team Luna Rossa has been to win against well-known opponent Emirates New Zealand.  The two teams were finalists in the …

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On the occasion of Ferragosto celebrations at Casa Barbera, we met the representative of Italian coffee in Los Angeles, Matteo Pasquini, and learned about his family business while enjoying a delicious cappuccino.    Let’s start from the beginning… In 1955 …

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Intense and complex are the two descriptors I see most when describing the wines of Washington state. Washington is way up North, the most northern major winegrowing area in the world. But before you start thinking that this wine country …

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Crisi o non crisi, i nostri connazionali alla luna di miele di certo non rinunciano. Specialmente se la destinazione è Stati Uniti d’America. Forse perché, nel corso degli anni, il viaggio di nozze è diventato per gli italiani un momento …

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Invitato al festival cinematografico di Brussels dal produttore esecutivo Franz Esterházy per la visione di “Heute bin ich blond” o “La ragazza dalle nove parrucche”, mi preparo a vedere il film con uno stato d’animo ostinatamente impreciso.    Questa la …

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Dear Readers, An August “abbondanza” of admiration for those arrivals who reached our shores in the early 1900’s… ***   America, where “noses fun and feet smell”, is a land loaded with linguistic lumps in the road for new arrivals …

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Buona la prima per tutti, tranne che per il Milan di Massimiliano Allegri. Sintesi facile per la prima giornata del campionato di serie A, scattato nel weekend.  Le big (anche quelle in difficoltà come l’Inter) confermano il proprio ruolo e …

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