Top 10 Little Italy Restaurants and Hotspots To Visit This Holiday Season
Once home to more than 6,000 Italian families who worked to build San Diego's then-flourishing tuna fishing industry, Little Italy is now a quaint and lively neighborhood filled with patio cafés, unique restaurants, art galleries, shops, hotels, and the beautiful Amici Park. Whether you frequent the area or are just paying a winter vacatio...
Artisanal Food’s Brett Ottolenghi to Launch Food Expo
Brett Ottolenghi, one of the Valley's top gourmet food authorities, wants to expand his sphere of influence. He's long supplied top restaurants with luxury ingredients including truffles, caviar and foie gras. And his popular retail outlet Artisanal Foods recently expanded to include a small café and catering company in partnership with aw...
Piazza Rialto: Nice Italian take
By Heather McPherson Piazza Rialto is an interesting find in west Orange County. The restaurant is nicely designed with a large main dining room centered around a bar. The room is voluminous yet it has cozy, intimate niches. The décor has a casual elegance vibe that makes it destination for date night or family supper. And the spa...
A taste of Italy at the Winter Fancy Food Show
The 2014 Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco closed last week, following a three-day exhibition of more than 80,000 hand-crafted, artisan foods and beverages from more than 1,300 exhibitors from across the U.S. and around the world. Now on its 39th edition, the Winter Fancy Food Show is the West Coast's largest showcase dedicated to the latest...
L'assessore Fedele in missione negli USA per il progetto promozionale del Sistema Calabria
L'Assessore regionale all'Internazionalizzazione Luigi Fedele ha partecipato ad una serie di eventi negli Stati Uniti che rientrano nel progetto promozionale del Sistema Calabria in Usa. La prima tappa della missione commerciale statunitense – informa una nota dell'ufficio stampa della Giunta - ha riguardato una manifestazione d'interesse...
California's "Winescapes" Created By Intensive Immigrant Labor
"Italians have played a major role in shaping the California wine industry, as is clear by the profusion of vowel-ending names among the state's wineries. In fact, many of the Italian American wineries that now dot the map of California's wine regions are third-generation immigrant operations whose heritage goes back to men and women who left Italy...
Review: Loaves of love
If you must live by bread alone, best make it Genova's. A few years shy of its centennial year, the once-predominantly Italian neighborhood around the Stockton bakery, market and deli has changed dramatically over the past 100 years. What haven't changed are the loaves and loaves of bread hot from the oven — French, sourdough, Dutch c...
Appuntamento con l’enologia toscana all’IIC di Los Angeles
Appuntamento con i vini rossi toscani all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles che organizza per il 20 febbraio prossimo alle 18.00 il seminario, con degustazione enologica a seguire, "Villa Le Corti, San Casciano (Florence). Classic Tuscan Reds" tenuto da Giammario Villa, esparto enologo. In programma anche "FamousTuscan Families and Their...
World Touring Chef Stops Off in San Diego’s Little Italy
World touring Chef Varinia Cappelletti recently stopped in sunny San Diego before heading to her next stop in the chilly parts of Midwestern towns and New York. Commenting on the warm California climate, she dreaded the part of her tour that would take her to the colder states. “The weather here is so beautiful,” said the chef, who is affe...
6 Favorite Italian American Delis for Cold Cut Sandwiches
On May 28, the FDA will lift the USDA ban on imported Italian cured pork products. This means we'll finally get to enjoy artisanal salami from parts of Italy like Emilia-Romagna and Piedmonte. Although according to The New York Times, it remains to be seen how much will be made available to us, given the cost of certification (upwards of $100,000)....
Tisanoreica diet lures Italian-American masterchefs
Los Angeles has recently hosted the "Tisanoreica Week", an intense week of culinary passion that saw the strong link between the great Italian-American chefs and this "Made in Italy" diet called Tisanoreica, created by Gianluca Mech, President of Gianluca Mech SpA. These events were organized by Carollo Productions USA (Andrea Carollo), wi...
Trattoria da Vittorio, West Portal Italian
by Allie Pape Trattoria da Vittorio150 West Portal Ave., West PortalPhone: (415) 742-0300Web: www.trattoriadavittorio.com Trattoria da Vittorio, the new Southern Italian spot from Vittorio d'Urzo, officially opened last night in the former Cafe For All Seasons space. D'Urzo, who used to manage Italian restaurants on the Peninsula, has bro...