Accademia Italiana della Cucina - Delegazione SF
Accademia Italiana della Cucina - Delegazione di San FranciscoIl Presidente dell'Accademia Italiana della Cucina, Prof. Giovanni Ballarini, e il Segretario Generale, Dott. Paolo Petroni, hanno compiuto una visita alle delegazioni di Sacramento, San Francisco e Silicon Valley. Previa una visita alla città di San Francisco, organizzata dal Delegato,...
Taste of Italy: Upscale Italian Food and Wine Event Benefiting the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles
The seventh-annual Taste of Italy, an evening of authentic Italian food and wine to benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), will take place on October 10th in downtown Los Angeles. Taste of Italy showcases over 35 of the region's best restaurants, Italian and California-Italian wineries, as well as live entertainment, chef demon...
The Great GRAVY/SAUCE Cooking Competition
September 26/27 - 3 PM - 1651 N. Highland Ave, 90028The Great Gravy/Sauce Cooking Competition is taking place again at The Galbani Cheese Feast of San Gennaro Los Angeles hosted by The Meatballs Of Comedy! Preliminary taste tests will be held on Saturday 9/26/15 and final judging will take place on Sunday 9/27/15! Great Prizes! Celebrity Judge...
Mission Italian: the legacy of Italian culture in the latin district
For the average visitor or newcomer to San Francisco, the city's distinct neighborhoods are readily associated with the ethnic or cultural group whose imprint is most visible in the local landscape. The rainbow flags of the Castro point to the gay (and lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) community. The Haight's tie-dye murals proclaim hipp...
Come for the food, stay for the bocce at Tin Roof Bistro
by Merrill Schindler When I lived in New York City, I often would go to an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side called Il Vagabondo, which served terrific red sauce food from the south of "The Boot" and was filled with lots of (mostly) guys speaking Italian. It also featured an indoor bocce court. You could get a table that s...
IACCW’s Vino California 2014: promoting Italian wine
by Silvia Simonetti Organized by the Italian American Chamber of Commerce West - whose mission is to provide the business community with services, assistance, and networking opportunities -, the 4th edition of the initiative Vino California – Celebrating Italian Wine on the West Coast was held on May 14, 2014, in the historical Valentino r...
Jersey's Italian-American Comfort Food Is Here to Sauce Up SOMA
If Italian-American comfort food sounds like just the thing after a long day at the office, SOMA's brand-new Jersey, which opened yesterday at 145 Second Street, has you covered. The fourth restaurant from brothers/downtown power team Mitchell and Steven Rosenthal (Town Hall, Salt House, Anchor & Hope), it's a celebration of the red-sauce delic...
The Taste Buds go Italian at Acqua Al 2 in the Gaslamp
With so many charming restaurants to choose from in San Diego's historic Gaslamp Quarter, diners can overlook some of the gleaming jewels on the local food scene. One such place is Acqua Al 2, near the foot of Fifth Avenue between J and K streets, not far from Petco Park, the glorious Central Library and the vast San Diego Convention Center....
Local Profile – Roma Espresso
Smooth. Bold. Strong. Authentic. Italian. Words typically reserved to describe a delicious and gratifying cup of espresso coffee. However, the same words can also depict the man behind his coffee and espresso machines, Massimo Bresin, founder of Roma Espresso located in Kearny Mesa. Migrating in the late 1970's from Rome, Italy, Massimo's intentio...
LA Restaurants Lead Italian Quake Relief Efforts With Pasta
As the death toll from last week's calamitous earthquake in Central Italy neared 300, some Los Angeles restaurants pitched in to the relief effort by earmarking profits from a pasta dish made in the region to quake relief. Restaurants across the Southland are collecting money for earthquake relief, particularly by promoting a dish made famous...
Mina Test Kitchen’s new incarnation, Little Italy, debuts Saturday night
By Sarah Fritsche This is your friendly reminder that the new incarnation of Michael Mina's Test Kitchen, Little Italy, debuts this Saturday night (October 31).As Inside Scoop reported last month, the Italian American-themed menu will be a tribute to the rustic Italian immigrant cooking of chef Adam Sobel's grandmother and the Sunday famil...
The art of Pasta-making in Los Angeles: Semolina artisanal pasta
We met Leah Ferrazzani, the founder of Semolina Artisanal Pasta. Adopting the traditional techniques that she learned from Italian pasta makers, she uses high-quality ingredients to produce five types of pasta in Downtown Los Angeles. Leah's experience with Italian food dates back to when she was the restaurant manager at Pizzeria Mozza, in Los An...