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Send us your favorite Italian restaurants offering curbside, delivery or pick-up in your community! Since NIAF launched this initiative last month, people have submitted dozens of restaurants from 23 states nationwide. Let's support Italian restaurants in all 50. Email media@niaf.org the following: Restaurant Name Location (city and state) Website See the running list at www.niaf.org/restaurants.From the extensive Vatican collection to Roman ruins, here are six beautiful Italian museums in Italy that you can visit online, curated by @anamericaninrome—link in bio.NIAF is partnering with @sognotoscano to give 10% off your order from sognotoscano.com! Skip the line and the crowded supermarkets—but the same authentic products and have them delivered to your door. All you have to do is enter our discount code NIAF10 to receive the 10% discount. You will also help the Foundation because for every purchase that uses our discount, NIAF receives a percentage from the sale to help us continue our mission through these times. So order your Italian go-to basics and delicacies at sognotoscano.com."Throughout its rich and storied history, Rome has come back from invaders and setbacks of all descriptions. The Eternal City will surely do so once again. The world’s prayers are with you..." Check out the rest of Carla Gambescia's post on NIAF's Pensieri Blog—link in bio.The campaign can also be found at www.niaf.org/coronavirusrelief. ⬇️⬇️⬇️🇮🇹🇺🇸🙏🏼 Repost from @italyinus • #ItalyStayStrong - The Embassy of #Italy has partnered with ISSNAF for this @gofundme campaign to fund 3 Italian medical and research institutes in Rome, Milan, and Naples at the forefront of the #coronavirus outbreak. Please click link in bio to join our campaign and to donate. (Image credits: Fusion Medical Animation) #italia #italian #iorestoacasa #weareitaly #covid19 #issnaf #rome #milan #naplesTomie dePaola, the prolific children’s author and illustrator who delighted generations with tales of Strega Nona, the kindly and helpful old witch in Italy, passed away on March 30, at age 85. “...I think Tomie dePaola showed all of us the power a good book holds. And how many hearts that book can touch. A well-crafted story will accompany you for the rest of your life. And so will the memory of Tomie. It will be here, in my heart, for eternity." Read @iambooksboston founder Nicola Orichuia's memories of Tomie dePaola on NIAF's Pensieri blog: niafblog.wordpress.com (or link in bio).Recent Tweets
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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
Homage to Rome…The Eternal City
By Carla Gambescia, author of La Dolce Vita University & curator of Postcards from the Boot Throughout its rich and storied history, Rome has come back from invaders and setbacks of all descriptions. The Eternal City will surely do so … Continue reading
Walking Down Memory Lane
Reflections by Melissa Bellini It’s a gray morning in the tristate area, but I refuse to let it get to me.Sitting here with my espresso and anisette toast, I’m once again reminded of simpler times when I had not a … Continue reading
Grieving for Italy and Hoping for Beyond
A Reflection By Joan Lombardi When you are the child of an immigrant, you grow up with stories of the other country. No matter how proud you are of your own homeland, there is always the other. It is in … Continue reading
Italy on lockdown. The view from there.
By Jan Angilella Italy has been in a national lockdown for almost two weeks because of the spread of the coronavirus and Covid-19. There are still two weeks to go. As I write this, the death toll in the country … Continue reading
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March 20, 2020
Tagged Bologna, coronavirus, Grotte, Italy, lockdown, Milan, Naples, quarantine, Sicily
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It’s Time for Some Zeppole: Happy Saint Joseph’s Day
By Chris Tremoglie March 19 is Saint Joseph’s Day (La Festa di San Giuseppe), widely celebrated in Europe and, traditionally, the Italian American population in the United States. The feast celebrates the life of Joseph, who was the carpenter who raised … Continue reading
Islands of the Gods
Postcards by Carla Gambescia, author of La Dolce Vita University Sicily and its Aeolian Islands are places of magic where myths and legends were born. The Greek gods made these lands their playground and demonstrated a penchant for “Sicilian real estate,” … Continue reading
Book Review: Rope and Soap
Rope and Soap: Lynchings of Italians in the United States by Patrizia Salvetti “Eleven Italians, some of whom were awaiting trial while others had been already acquitted, were forcibly removed from jail by a mob and lynched in public with the … Continue reading
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June 18, 2018
Tagged American History, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Criminal, Discrimination, History, Immigrant, immigrants, immigration, Italian, Italian American, Italian History, Italian Immigrant, Italian immigrants, Law, literature, Lynching, Lynchings, New Orleans, New Orleans History, nonfiction, Sicilian, Sicilian American, Sicily, United States Immigration, United States of America
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