News Archives: Issue 5
Nov 2003
Business Your Business Manners Matter
By Loretta Di Vita
"Look out!" someone shrieked, as the icy, sherbet ball flew across the banquet room. In the midst of extolling the virtues of proper table manners to a...
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Commentary Nice Place to Visit, But...
By Joseph Pivato
Like many Italians around the world I have a love-hate relationship with Italy. I was born in Italy and have always considered myself lucky to...
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Book Review Facing Gasparini's Demons
By Marisa De Franceschi
I recently read Len Gasparini's short story collection, A Demon in My View (Guernica, 2003) and found myself absorbed by the writing. I have long been a fan of his...
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Poem In the Piazza Called Plado-Mosca
By Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci
In the piazza called Plado-Mosca
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Non fiction Between My Father and Me
By Gilda Morina Syverson
This fall I've been waking around four each morning. A naturopath once told me that waking in the middle of the night between three and five...
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Fiction Dolly Lets Her Hair Down
By Caren Durante
It's Saturday night and Mario's Dine and Dance is packed with Wops twirling spaghetti on their forks and women on the dance floor. It's 1956. People say Wop
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Cover Story
Pour the Wine, Pass the Baccalà
By Patrice D. Bucciarelli
Italians pride themselves on their ability to turn even the most mundane occasions into holidays by virtue of their sumptuous cuisine and legendary hospitality
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Feature Coming to the Land of Plenty
By Happie Testa
"I miss the warmth ? not so much the weather, as the people," says Marco Luciani Castiglia, as he sips his espresso at a sidewalk caffé. It's a warm, bright September morning in
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Community The Secret of Our Success
By Ida Maria Pan
"How boring, how dull, how sad!" That's what I thought, twenty years ago, the first time I attended one of the many regional association events in my newly adopted Canadian city
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Neighbourhood Snapshot Prime Minister Paul Martin
For some people, early September is tomato season - not just the time for harvesting a fruit once believed to be poisonous, but two weeks of the year when garage doors
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From the Publisher
I have read all the articles in the September/October issue of Accenti and particularly enjoyed those which tell of immigrants, recent or older, and how they have settled; and of their successes
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From our Readers
By Domenic Cusmano
Earlier this fall the Department of Canadian Heritage with Statistics Canada released the results of the Ethnic Diversity Survey, a pan-Canadian study which between April and August 2002
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Fashion The Sartorial Splendour of the Renaissance
By Loretta Di Vita
Trailing a long, brocade train behind her, the golden-haired, corseted princess entered the room. She repeatedly teased a young, sword-bearing suitor by
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