Fiola Has a New Executive Chef: Stefano Frigerio
Chef Stefano Frigerio, a veteran of Washington's fine dining Italian scene, has been tapped as the new executive chef at Fiola. The Lake Como, Italy, native first cooked with chef/owner Fabio Trabocchi in 1997 when the two were young cooks in London, and helped open two notable Italian restaurants together.* They rejoined forces in 2002 at...
Taste With Tori: Matt & Marie’s Modern Italian Sandwich Shop
Well it's not New York, New York, but at Matt and Marie's Modern Italian sandwich shop in Center City, it's pretty close. These New York natives attended the prestigious Wharton School of Business, and then never left. For their dreams of retirement one day had them putting their heads together as young students at a diner way before grad...
Review: Massimo Updates Old-School Italian
Walking into Massimo is like arriving at a high school reunion. You've been here before but things have changed and you spend an inordinate amount of time trying to remember what everything looked like back in the day. It's a futile effort given that the restaurant is an entirely different animal from Mediterraneo, the former occupant of one of the...
From e Ice promuovono le mele italiane nel New Jersey
La collaborazione tra il Consorzio FROM Italian Alps e l'ufficio di New York di ICE Agenzia continua con una promozione avviata lo scorso sabato 14 febbraio presso la catena di supermercati Corrado's, nello stato del New Jersey. A due anni dalla firma del protocollo commerciale tra Italia e Stati Uniti, il Consorzio FROM continua le attivi...
Winner of Hoboken Chili Cook-Off offers Italian Delight
The 7th annual Hoboken Chili and Home Brewing Contest was a foodie's paradise. From vegetarian chili to pulled pork chili to Nebraska chili to the winning batch of Italian inspired chili, this was a non-profit event with plenty of heat. To quench that sizzle were numerous home brewed beers, happily shared to the over 21 crowd, while the undera...
Red gravy traditionalists, innovators vie in S. Phila. cook-off
Purists might view what happened Sunday evening in the cafeteria of SS. Neumann and Goretti High School as a minor act of blasphemy. Eight contestants competed in a blind taste testing of their best recipe for red gravy - that hearty, tomato-based Italian staple poured over pasta, refined through generations of Sunday suppers and better known to t...
Former Hamilton mayor, longtime Roma Bank Chairman Maury Perilli dies at 95
Maurice T. "Maury" Perilli, perhaps best known as the former chairman and executive vice president of Roma Bank, as well as mayor of Hamilton died today. He was 95. Perilli was born in Trenton on Oct. 29, 1918, the son of Italian immigrants. He was 2 years old when Roma opened its first branch in the Chambersburg neighborhood of Trenton, P...
Senti's all about family, bringing flavors of Northern Italy to Lawrenceville
By Laura Zorch "Every day you discover something new." Franco Braccia has only good things to say about his city, Pittsburgh. Braccia owns Senti, a bright, new culinary spot in Lawrenceville, with his wife, Annette Ishida. The transplant from Italy, by way of New York, has lived in Pittsburgh for over eight years, but maintains there...
NJ Based Lioni Introduces New Bufala Fresca Cheese
Total Food Service sat down with Lori Church, Director of Sales & Marketing, Lioni Latticini Inc. in Union, NJ to talk about foodservice cheese trends and menu solutions. The Salzarulo family began its tradition in the Latticini business in the town of Lioni, Italy many decades ago. In 1980, the family brought its fine art of cheese ma...
I “grandi classici” che vincono in USA: Barolo, Brunello di Montalcino e Chianti classico tra i rossi, e Friulano tra i bianchi, sono l’Italia al top nell’alta gamma per i “voice wine awards” del seguitissimo sito USA snooth.com
Quando si tratta di vino di alta gamma e di Italia, i wine lovers d'America, di questi tempi, preferiscono andare sul sicuro, affidandosi a denominazioni e brand ormai riconosciuti e affidabili. Almeno stando ai vincitori della categorie "Super Premium" e "Luxury" (come già per le categorie "Value" e "Premium", che vi abbiamo raccontato) dei "Peopl...
Fratelli's Italian Restaurant Set to Re-Open in Salisbury
A well-known restaurant in Salisbury that was destroyed by fire earlier this year, is re-opening at a new location. The Daily Times reports that Fratelli's Italian Restaurant will re-open at it's new location at 925 Snow Hill Road in February 2015; the building that once housed Waterman's Cove, is currently undergoing renovations. A f...
A Filadelfia apre il primo museo della pizza
Il nome è Pizza Brain, una nuova pizzeria che ha aperto a Filadelfia, nel quartiere di Kensington. Ma non è una semplice pizzeria. C'è una particolarità: è anche un museo che è entrato nel Guinnes dei primati per una collezione immensa di oggetti dedicati alla pizza: dischi, fotografie, scontrini di locali storici, oggettistica, quadri, copertine d...