The Hispanic community is growing in New York, changing the colors, music and speech in Harlem and the Bronx. It boasts three million new residents, whose political and economic power is bound to grow.

It is called the “Italian Culinary Experience” and it is a training course for a new generation of chefs for Italian restaurants in New York, offered as a collaboration between the International Culinary Center and the Alma International School for Italian Cooking of Colorno (Parma).

Young Americans prefer shopping at the big designer store chains, which are accused of standardizing personal styles. And Italian fashion seems caught in a crisis.