Con Ornella Fado si brinda al buon gusto italiano a New York
di Liliana Rosano Ambasciatrice del Made in Italy negli Stati Uniti, Ornella Fado, calabrese, romana di formazione ma newyorchese d'adozione, ha contribuito a diffondere la cultura contemporanea italiana in America al punto che nel 2009, l'allora sindaco di New York, Michael Bloomberg, l'ha incoronata esperta della gastronomia italiana durante la...
East Harlem Tables: Food and Italian Immigrant Cultures
by Fabio Parasecoli When friends visit New York City from out of town, especially from Italy, we often end up taking a stroll through Manhattan's Little Italy, which looms large in the imagination of many Italians. Although they have seen it in movies and in TV shows, they tend to have a limited sense of how and why immigrants moved betwee...
La food valley mette il mondo a tavola: le eccellenze dell’Emilia Romagna alla conquista di New York
La Food Valley dell'Emilia-Romagna mette il mondo a tavola, esponendo nella "vetrina" internazionale più prestigiosa - quella di New York - i suoi prodotti, ovunque simbolo del miglior Made in Italy. Dal Parmigiano reggiano al Prosciutto di Parma, dall'Aceto balsamico alla Piadina romagnola, dal Cotechino di Modena alla Mortadella di Bologna,...
Andato in fumo il forno della nota Artuso Bakery, al posto del profumo del pane ieri l'odore di bruciato
by Riccardo Chioni "È solo un edificio e si ricostruirà" ha detto Anthony Artuso ieri mattina dopo che i vigili del fuoco avevano spento l'incendio che ha consumato il forno industriale che produceva per diverse pasticcerie. L'incendio si è sviluppato poco prima delle 7 del mattino nel forno situato all'angolo tra 12th Avenue e Third Stre...
Cerame's serves old-school classic Italian
Offering old-school classics made with family-tested and -approved recipes and techniques, Cerame's Italian Villa in Brighton has been in business for 40-plus years. Upon entering the restaurant in Winton Place Plaza, we were greeted by a dimmed display case, filled with pre-sliced cakes and cannoli and serving as a partition between the b...
Zero Otto Nove In Armonk Is Old School Italian, Without Irony
It's hard to do old-school Italian with a straight face nowadays. It's been that way since Manhattan's Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi opened their three odes to Italian-American cuisine: Torrisi Italian Specialties, Carbone, and Parm. These restaurants dared to admit that, sure, the mid-century Italian joints of our grandparents' generatio...
La Pecora Bianca Brings Healthy Italian to NoMad
By Kelly Dobkin The gist: Restaurateur Mark Barak of Claudette just opened a brand new Italian-inspired eatery called La Pecora Bianca last night in NoMad. The menu highlights farm-fresh ingredients including pasture-raised local Hudson Valley meat, whole grain pastas, and seasonal veggies. The food: The focus here is on housemade...
Italian Eatery Sant Ambroeus Plans to Take Over Terrace Cafe at Sotheby's
By Shaye Weaver Sotheby's is getting a new cafe. Sant Ambroeus — an Italian eatery with four other locations in the city — is expected to replace Sotheby's Terrace Cafe on York Avenue, according to a representative for the chain. The chain is looking to get a liquor license for its new cafe, to accompany a menu of mostly sandwiches,...
Italian Restaurant Week kicks off at Bensonhurst’s new Italian-American Community Center
By Rob Abruzzese Brooklyn's Italian Restaurant Week kicked off on Tuesday night with a sneak peek at Il Centro, Bensonhurst's soon-to-be-open Italian-American Community Center. Elected officials and local residents gathered to get a glimpse of the new building while chowing down on some of Brooklyn's delectable Italian food. "Let me welco...
Gelso & Grand Comes to Little Italy
Gelso means mulberry in Italian, hence the name of this newcomer to a high-profile corner of Little Italy, the intersection of Grand and Mulberry. The Italian menu by Cassidy Hallman, who worked at Bouley and Momofuku, hews to the modern Italian canon, and the chef says he depends on the best ingredients, even milling his own flour, for his pa...
Mamo le Michelangelo Brings its Italian cuisine to the U.S. with Mamo
by Alyssa Bird New Yorkers are getting a taste of the French Riviera thanks to the recent debut of Mamo. The Provençal-influenced Italian restaurant, opened by Mike "Mamo" Mammoliti in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, is an offshoot of his family's popular Antibes, France, eatery, Mamo le Michelangelo, which has been a staple of the Côte d'A...
Why the Ultimate Italian Sandwich Took 2 Years to Create
by Rochelle Bilow & Andrew Knowlton Meat-sandwich lovers are in luck—restaurants from Roman Candle Baking Co. in Portland, Oregon, to Publican Quality Meats in Chicago are doing fine riffs on the Italian combo, that classic sub layered with cured meats, cheese, and veg. But one of the finest comes from Court Street Grocers in Brooklyn,...