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Meglio una buona notizia che una cattiva notizia, avrebbe detto il "principe dell'ovvio" Massimo Catalano, celebre personaggio della trasmissione "Quelli della notte" di Renzo Arbore, appena scomparso. E di buone notizie per il vino mondiale e italiano, dagli Usa, mercato enoico n. 1 del pianeta e dove l'Italia è leader, continuano ad arrivare buon...

by Amanda haury   LaScala's is an excellent choice for dinner and drinks in Philadelphia's historic district. Located at 615 Chestnut Street, at the corner of 7th and Chestnut, LaScala's is a Philadelphia based restaurant features Italian American home style cooking, and is a convenient option for business professionals, tourists visiting th...

Join Celebrity Chef/Gourmand Award Winning Author Maria Liberati as she makes a special appearance for an entertaining reading and sampling from her recipe memoir The Basic Art of Italian Cooking.   She will be at the Mercer County Italian American Festival on Friday, Sept 26th at 5:30 - 6:30 pm in the Cultural Theater located in the Heritag...

Saturday, August 1 - 12.30 EDT / Valenzano Winery - 1090 Route 206, Shamong, New Jersey 08088. The Tasting Series continues... Join the members of OSIA Lodge Mario Lanza #2308 for a wine tasting at Valenzano Winery in Shamong, NJ. Light appetizers of crackers & cheese are provided during the tasting in the Winery's Vat Room. &n...

With Cooking Channel's Laura Vitale, what you see really is what you get. Vitale, a native of Italy but has been a resident of Atlantic County since age 12, is a self-taught 29-year-old culinary personality who earned her stripes as the star of her self-created Web series "Laura in the Kitchen."   Vitale, regarded for her mix of all-America...

When Vincenzo Severino sold Avanti in Pennington in 2014 he wasn't finished with the restaurant business. "I wasn't done. I just needed a break after 21 years straight," he said.   That break lasted a year, until a friend told him about an opening in the Big Oak Shopping Center across the Delaware River in Morrisville, Pa. He and his wife K...

by Sarah Kaplan   More than a dozen Italian restaurants and pizzerias are opening in D.C. this spring. Here's one more to add to the list: Arcuri, which opens tomorrow in Glover Park.   The Italian-American eatery is co-owned by four friends who have worked their way through the D.C. restaurant scene: Bryce Gerlach, Joe Chapman, Adam...

It might not bode well for a restaurant when your first thought is: Are those edible?They were thin breadsticks that towered out of a champagne glass so high that my friends and I had to move them aside in order to make eye contact when we sat down for dinner at La Sera in Wyckoff. The glass nearly toppled over as we did so, and we wondered whether...

by Meredith Bethune   Gaitherburg gets a new pizza place with the opening of Inferno Pizzeria Napoletana. Chef and owner Tony Conte, formerly of Jean Georges in New York and the Oval Room, will fire up the wood-burning oven tonight. Although Conte is well-known for his high-end cooking, he got his start making pizza in his hometown of...

Consider the Sarros family's participation in a Lakeview street festival this weekend to be a preview of what will soon be regular fare at Tina's Italian Ice, a new, not-yet-opened store at 1050 W. Bryn Mawr in Edgewater.   The 850-square-foot store should open within the first 10 days of June and replaces what had been a florist shop. It's...

Nel 2012 l'Italia ha esportato negli USA 133 mila tonnellate di oli vergini di oliva per un valore di 403 milioni di Euro su un totale di circa 1,3 miliardi di Euro di export in tutto il mondo. Vale a dire che un terzo di tutto l'export di olio extra vergine di oliva targato made in Italy vola verso gli USA che restano il primo mercato di riferimen...

By Tim Carman   When Katherine Burk left a photo exhibit downtown in search of lunch Thursday afternoon, she suggested to her husband and two friends that they stop at Famous Luigi's. Burk was feeling nostalgic: At age 15, she had her first date at the old RKO Keith's theater, where the Old Ebbitt Grill now sits, and followed up a screening...