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Reflections – The Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery (VOD)
-In light of the 2020 VOD being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic- By Anthony Pizzo, Alumnus of the 2002 Gift of Discovery/Voyage of Discovery In 2002, I had the life changing honor to go to NIAF’s Voyage of Discovery … Continue reading
NIAF Membership Giveaway with My Dad’s Sauce
My Dad’s Sauce is an Italian Family Business partnering with NIAF to offer a NIAF Membership Giveaway! Learn more. Continue reading
NIAF Congressional Fellow: Part 3
By Sam Pedalino, 2019 NIAF Congressional Fellow This past fall semester I had the privilege of working for Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr. (N.J.-09) who is Co-chairman of the Italian American Congressional Delegation (IACD). My work primarily focused on working with … Continue reading
NIAF Congressional Fellowship: Part 2
By Luke Ferrante, 2019 Congressional Fellow My Italian American heritage has always played a large role in my life. From a young age, the stories of my family’s hard work to make a new life for themselves in America inspired … Continue reading
Italian American WWII Heroes
By Chris Tremoglie Vice President Nelson Rockefeller once said, “I think of the 1.5 million Americans of Italian descent who made up ten percent of the armed might of the United States in World War II, and many of these … Continue reading
Untold WWII History: U.S. Internment of Italians Americans
Italian immigrants and Italian Americans were seen as “enemy aliens” in America during WWII. Thousands were forced into internment camps or relocated–unfortunately, American history books fail to remember this. Continue reading
The NIAF Congressional Fellowship: Part 1
By Nicoló Ferretti, 2019 NIAF Congressional Fellow Forty Italians stood in a round room in the heart of the Capitol as Kirsten Gillibrand, a U.S. Senator from the great state of New York, gestured towards me. She had just welcomed … Continue reading
Quarantine Cuisine: A Rustic Potato Leek Soup
By Joanne Marino Bartram, co-author of Two Parts Italy blog I didn’t think it would last this long. Two weeks, three at the most, and we’d see the number of new infections and deaths drop in Italy. I was overconfident. Three … Continue reading
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April 8, 2020
Tagged coronavirus, Italy, lockdown, Lucca, quarantine, Recipe, Tuscany
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Venice… the Most Improbable of Cities
By Carla Gambescia, author of La Dolce Vita University & curator of Postcards from the Boot An elegant gondola with its striped-shirt gondolier plying one of Venice’s 177 canals, silently gliding beneath one of its 450 stone bridges. Extravagant carnival masks … simultaneously … Continue reading
Goodbye to a Dear Friend: Tomie dePaola
By Nicola Orichuia I often tell people that the reason our bookstore is still around today is because of Tomie dePaola. Let me share a little story with you… We opened our doors on Oct. 29, 2015, and some might have … Continue reading
