La Camera USA blocca le limitazioni alle importazioni di olio d'oliva
Nel quadro del Farm Bill, il pacchetto legislativo per il settore agricolo americano, la Camera dei Rappresentanti USA ha approvato oggi a grande maggioranza (343 voti a favore, 81 contro) un emendamento che blocca l'introduzione di un "market order" sulle importazioni di olio d'oliva. E' stata cosi' evitata l'istituzione di una misura che, prevede...
Downtown-Go-Around has Italian flavor
In honor of October being Italian Heritage Month, organizers of the Downtown-Go-Around are planning to bring a taste of Italy to the streets of downtown Clarks Summit on Friday, Oct. 11. "We have reached out to many of our favorite Italian restaurants in Clarks Summit and they are working to bring some tastes of Italy to State Street. We are hopin...
Sample Wines From Every Region of Italy at Wilmington's Wine Festival!
More than 3,000 wine lovers are expected to meet up Sunday, Oct. 12 for the Societa da Vinci Vendemmia Wine Festival in Wilmington, Delaware. From 2 to 6 p.m., you can sample fine wines and other treats from the area's best Italian restaurants and bakeries. The festival will also include live music performances, handcrafted wine and homemade gravy...
He’s the celebrity chef, but she’s running the show
"Are you the wife?" The wife. Maria Trabocchi gets that question a lot. Six days a week, Maria — blond, 5-foot-9 before she slips a foot into her high-heeled ankle boots, as tan as if she's just flown back from Tulum, Mexico — flits between the dining rooms of Fiola, Fiola Mare and Casa Luca, the trio of Washington restaurants she owns...
As it turns 100, Italian Market aims to manage growth
by Maria Panaritis Gus Sarno still makes cakes in the basement of the South Philadelphia rowhouse his grandfather bought in 1904 and turned into Isgro Pastries. He still stacks cookies into boxes at the dining room table where his family ate supper 60 years ago when the doorbell to the shop wasn't ringing. Sarno still sells c...
Wine and dine Italian at Folino Estate
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy wine, which is basically the same thing for many people. Whether you are stocking up for holiday get-togethers, romantic date nights or movie nights by yourself, consider stopping by the area's newest winery, Folino Estate Vineyard & Winery, in Greenwich Township, Berks County. The 17,000-s...
Ah’ Pizz and How to Have Great Pizza
Pizza is a touchy subject for those that live in New Jersey. Everybody has their favorite place to grab a slice, relax and eat the food that no one does better than New Jersey. Within every town in the state, streets are dotted with ItalianAmerican businesses...
An interview with Domenica Marchetti
by Rick Nelson As the daughter of an American father and an Italian mother, Domenica Marchetti enjoyed a charmed childhood. Her family lived in the United States during the school year, but spent summers in Italy, where Marchetti picked up an appreciation for Italian food through, as she says, "osmosis." "But as I got older, I beg...
Upper Crust: Coal-fired pizza at Bricco in Westmont
by Michael Klein Vincenzo Barone - who owns Barone's Tuscan Grill in Moorestown, N.J., and is part of the South Jersey restaurant family (brother Giovanni, father Guido) behind the long-running Villa Barone in Collingswood, N.J. - longed for the oldtime method of coal-fired pizza-making, "before it took a wrong turn and became a corporate business...
Castle Brands Introduces Castello Mio Sambuca Liquore Superiore
Castle Brands Inc., a developer and international marketer of premium and super-premium branded spirits, today announced that Castello Mio, a super premium Sambuca, is available in the US for the first time. Castello Mio Sambuca is made by a family company with a tradition of crafting fine liqueurs in the Veneto region of Italy since the 1800's. A...
Isabella’s Bistro & Salumeria
by Karen Newton Who doesn't appreciate a man with a mission? "My name is Sterling and I'm going to make sure your whole evening start to finish is a good one." Our amiable server at Isabella's Bistro & Salumeria is nothing if not enthusiastic, later dropping off our entrées with the pronouncement, "They're going to be delicio...
Alimentare: Coldiretti, esportazioni record negli Usa
Roma, 18 gen - La scelta del presidente americano Barack Obama di un menu' italiano per festeggiare il quarantanovesimo compleanno della moglie Michelle e' comune a tanti cittadini americani. Lo dimostra l'aumento record del 10% in valore delle esportazioni di prodotti alimentari Made in Italy negli Usa per un valore complessivo di 2,6 miliardi di...