The Italian Radio Hour

This week on The Italian Radio Hour we travel to the region of Umbria. Defined as Italy's Green Lung, our expert sommelier Francesco Rossetti tells us about some of the amazing wines, cheeses, and olive oils produced in this region, and how "Assisi Vino" was born. Francesco will be soon embarking on a two month long tour in the US where he will share flavors of Umbria with the US aud...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - With more than 90 million views on Youtube and Facebook, 40 FINGERS is one of the new crossover phenomenon acclaimed all over the world. They are a fabulous guitar quartet born in 2018. Each of them with a strong musical history and a different background, 40 Fingers explore new sounds in the name of fingerpicking combined with their unique style, offering an...

PITTSBURGH ITALIANS: Who remembers Larimer Avenue's Little Italy? What memories do you have about Larimer Avenue? This week on The Italian Radio Hour , I caught up with Linda Schifino , author of her newly published book "NEIGHBORHOOD GIRL".On a recent drive thru Larimer Avenue, the neighborhood that was home to Linda and her family, she came to realize that what she grew up with, no...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour we caught up with Italian-Australian comedian Joe (Giuseppe) Avati on a short break from his world tour "When I was your age". Joe and I met in Pittsburgh during his premier show in July. Joe seamlessly blends family anecdotes with relatable events from the collective memory and true mishaps in Italy. https://youtu.be/UYRWu8A7dfQ Joe Avati

This week on The Italian Radio Hour: DISCOVER ITALY in Vermont. In conversation with Lisa DeNatale, President of VICA - Vermont Italian Cultural Association. Last year, our initial contact with Italians living in VT, started with Alessandra Rellini, Owner and Operator of Agricola Vermont and Monte Verdi salumi in Panton, which then we visited of the July 4th holidays. That sparked more research in...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Italian Folk Dances & Music with Andrea De Siena, Anthony Taddeo, and Laura Esposito Traveling throughout Italy, especially in the Summer can be a great opportunity to catch up on festivals, sagre and wonderful dance exhibitions. The passion for Italian Folk Dances is even stronger now that the new generation has embraced it as an artistic art form, an exp...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - In conversation with KATIE PARLA (aka Katie "parla") I met up with Katie Parla in her tastefully decorated apartment in Rome, caught up on life, books, and all the great adventures that resulted in her latest beautiful book: FOOD of THE ITALIAN ISLANDS (FOTII), recipes from the Sunbaked Beaches, Coastal Villages, and Rolling Hillsides of Sicily, Sard...

This Thursday on The Italian Radio Hour : What does being Italian mean to you? Italians moving to the States now bring new traditions. Italians that have emigrated to the United States hundred years ago brought the traditions, the foods and the language of those times. So, even if the experience of being "Italian" might now differ, the sentiment remains the same: to preserve, to pass on,...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - During our tour of Friuli Venezia Giulia, we savored many DOP products of the region but Prosciutto San Daniele reigned king. After a "sensorial" tour of Prosciuttificio Prolongo, we caught up with Arianna Prolongo, third generation owner of PROSCIUTTIFICIO PROLONGO to learn about the steps and the quality assurance processes to guarantee and obtain...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour : Exploring Magazzino Italian Art , the only museum and Research Center dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States. The museum was founded by Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu with the mission to share works of the group of Italian artists who exhibited together in the late 1960s and early...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Meet Sara Bonfanti, the ballerina that traveled almost 8,000km on foot across Italy in 7 months from Friuli to Sardegna on the Club Alpinisti Trails.

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Gemma, the woman Dante never wrote about. What personality did this Florentine woman that no one remembers had? For love, she marries an inadvisable man: not rich, devoid of political power and moreover a poet. She doesn't let herself be dismayed when he finds himself on the wrong front, in a Florence where the bitter struggle between factions destroys liv...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - This week, I am joined by Massimo and Bill Sunseri, a household name here in Pittsburgh for anything Italian food related. The story of the Pennsylvania Macaroni Company is filled with pride, tradition, determination and much more. In the traditional Italian village of Trabia, Sicily there were three brothers of the proud, hard working Sunseri family who wante...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - La Corsa dei Ceri and Italians in Lackawanna County with Stephanie Longo . What do Gubbio and Jessup (PA) have in common? Join our conversation with Stephanie Longo, as we explore old and new traditions and how diverse Italian American populations join old and new with events such as La Corsa dei Ceri or St. Ubaldo Day in Jessup and La Festa Italiana on Scrant...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Venice, the city of water. For centuries Venice has been made famous by the material that most profoundly represents its enchanting history and fluid terrain, glass. As early as the nineteen eighties, Stephano and Daniele Attombri caught much attention and acclaim with their unique design that seems to move amid the fertile terrain of both fashion and fine art...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Ready to pack your bags and head to Venice? This week, we connected with Monica Cesarato, food blogger, guide extraordinaire, podcaster, and much more to talk about "Andar per bacari"...aka, how and where to go to try authentic Venetian "finger foods" (cichetti). Her tours and also book with the same title, will be a great (and delicious) w...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour: "Tracing threads and weaving stories" with Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo Of Calabrian origin, Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo is a multi-disciplinary artist, mother, researcher, arts worker, curator, and writer, based near Mildura in Northwest Victoria, Australia. Via a variety of disciplines, Luci makes artifacts utilizing traditional women’s modes of making: sewi...

"POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS" - Directed by Zac Baliva (Executive Producer John Tuturro), this full lengthy documentary gives voice to the untold stories of families what were victims of the Proclamations by President Roosevelt which authorized the United States to detain allegedly potentially dangerous enemy aliens. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies arrested thousands of suspected en...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - Let's cook with best selling author Frances Mayes, who returns to The Italian Radio Hour to talk about her new cookbook: PASTA VELOCE - Under the Tuscan Sun inspired recipes easy to make in a cinch! During our conversation, we will talk about the making of Under the Tuscan Sun and her residence Bramasole, her life in Cortona (Italy), and a special appearan...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour: TINA, MAFIA SOLDIER. In conversation with Sicilian writer Maria Rosa Cutrufelli and Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and translator of the book. Sicily, 1980s: When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdered in cold blood. Now a teenager...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - A conversation with Marina Marchese, Italian trained honey sensory expert and author of The Honey Connoisseur, a conversation that will span from her passion that started with Italian bees, honey tasting and bee keeping! An interesting conversation not to be missed! #italianbees #honey #beekeeping #queenbee

Ready to travel to LIGURIA? Join me in conversation with Enrica Monzani, Founder of A small kitchen in Genoa , and now author of a new cookbook in Italian AND ENGLISH (Yeah): LIGURIA IN CUCINA - The Flavors of Liguria.

From Calabria to Sharpsburg, the story of Pete's father, Pietro Ferraro and his mission to bring recorded messages of hope and joy to the United States as an immigrant in 1966. In doing so, he unknowingly immortalizes a generation of Italians through rare audio recordings and more than 50 years later we see its impact on the next generation living in the U.S.

How does USA made pasta hold up to their Italian counterparts? Meet Sfoglini pasta! Sfoglini combines the very best of Italian technique and American ingredients: traditional bronze dies and plates, beautiful pasta shapes, great porosity! Pasta is also slow-dry to preserve both flavor and nutrients. Sfoglini sources fifteen organic durum semolina pastas from the best in North American organic grai...

This week on The Italian Radio Hour: REMEMBERING THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE. As the City of New York is preparing to commemorate the 112th anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire where 146 mainly young immigrant women lost their lives, trapped in the building, we caught up with Mary Anne Trasciatti, President of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, and a Professor of Rhetoric and Director of...