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Join host Kathy McCabe to celebrate the premiere of the PBS travel series Dream of Italy at a cocktail party at Via Umbria in Washington, DC on Saturday, May 30th at 5 p.m. Via Umbria owners Suzy and Bill Menard are rolling out the red carpet in their Georgetown store/event space for a celebration of the television show and all …
A famous Florentine restaurant, Cantinetta Antinori, comes to New York for a brief time next month… Mondrian SoHo, one of New York City’s more high-spirited hotels, turns to Florence for inspiration for its first-ever pop-up restaurant. From October 3 through 6, diners can enjoy a selection of Cantinetta Antinori’s signature dishes in the hotel’s inaugural pop-up enterprise, which will be …
I didn’t even know Elizabeth Montana of DreamItalia and her husband the famous Denver sushi master Yasu Kizaki were longtime readers of Dream of Italy when I attended the Italian Wine and Movie Night they co-organized last summer at Balistreri Vineyards in Denver. It was simply the best event I have been to in the two years I have lived …
The Italians are invading Portland, Maine next week! Don’t worry, it is a friendly invasion for the first Italian Life Expo. Held at Portland’s waterfront Ocean Gateway Center, the festival will host exhibits on food, wine, and travel opportunities in Italy. Six sessions over the weekend will focus on wine tasting, travel, and culinary products. The event is sponsored in …
I couldn’t help but be hooked from the first episode, when I started watching Extra Virgin on the Cooking Channel. I was already familiar with actress Debi Mazar and had been following her Italian husband Gabriele Corcos on his website Under The Tuscan Gun and his presence on Twitter. I’m not sure what I was expecting but the chemistry between …
The nation’s capital has much to offer for Italophiles and CiaoDC.com aims to be the go-to source for all things Italian in DC. The brainchild of public relations consultant and third generation Italian-American Alyssa Ciccone, CiaoDC serves as both an educational and promotional online portal to the Italian/Italian American presence in Washington, with particular emphasis on culture, art, language, food, …
In an effort to promote cycling internationally, organizers of one of the sport’s most prestigious races, the Giro d’Italia, have announced that the prologue to the race will be held in Washington, DC in 2012, according to The Washington Post. The Giro d’Italia, which takes place mostly in Italy, will bring thousands of acclaimed cyclists and enthusiastic spectators from around …
There’s nothing you want more when you return from an Italian trip than to continue to eat as well as you did in Italy. That task isn’t made any easier by the fact that truly great Italian food stores can be few and far between when you get outside of America’s major cities. If you’re anywhere near Maryland’s Eastern Shore, …
On Friday, the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, opened at the Birmingham Museum of Art and will continue through November 9. The show explores da Vinci’s most celebrated notebooks, the 18-page Codex on the Flight of Birds, and 11 important drawings. This is the first time the items are being shown outside of Italy. …
Not only does September mark the sixth anniversary of Dream of Italy — and we’re celebrating by offering a $15 discount on our newsletter subscriptions — it is the fifth anniversary of Bella Italia, that wonderful store of all things Italian in Bethesda, MD! I’m helping them celebrate this Sunday, September 7th by being at the store to hand out …
