At Eataly, Local Suppliers Are the Key Ingredient
Just because Eataly's New York City flagship closes to customers at 11 p.m. doesn't mean the store shuts down: Its massive bakery oven burns bright 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The wood-burning oven—imported in pieces from Spain and painstakingly reassembled brick-by-brick by Spanish technicians—produces thousands of loaves of fresh br...
How I lost nearly 100 pounds eating pizza
By Claudine Ko When it comes to the never-ending quest to slim down, we've all heard about the success of the Atkins diet and eating Paleo. But one New York City chef used a far more revolutionary method to lose an astounding 94 pounds: the Pizza Diet. Naples, Italy, native Pasquale Cozzolino, 38, moved to New York in 2011 to work...
Abano Terme si fa bella a New York
By Beatrice Bondi Nell'ambito della valorizzazione del territorio e delle potenzialità turistiche della regione Veneto, giovedì sera l'ENIT di New York ha ospitato nella sua suite al Rockfeller Center la presentazione delle novità per il nuovo anno della lussuosa catena di alberghi termali GB Thermae Hotels di Abano Terme. Il direttore de...
Tre generazioni della famiglia Colavita hanno festeggiato 75 anni di attività al Center di Hyde Park
di Riccardo Chioni Tre generazioni della famiglia Colavita hanno festeggiato ieri a Hyde Park tre quarti di secolo di attività con una festa al ristorante Caterina de' Medici, adiacente il famoso Culinary Istitute of America da dove si sono laureati i migliori chef degli Stati Uniti. Centinaia gli ospiti arrivati al Colavita Center do...
Italian eatery coming to Fingerlakes Mall
The Fingerlakes Mall announced Tuesday that a new pizza place will soon be opening at the Aurelius mall. In a news release, the mall said it has signed a lease with Sal Musumeci to open a 1,075-square-foot eatery. Brooklyn Slice Italian Eatery plans to renovate the existing Pizza Slice location. Musumeci also operates GJP Italian Eatery o...
Ospitalità italiana e Cioccoshow, tutto il sapore della vera cucina italiana
di Barbara Gigante Come riconoscere all'estero l'autenticità della cucina italiana? Per aiutare la caccia all'italiano vero c'è la certificazione Qualità Italiana che martedì 23 settembre si è presentata al pubblico newyorchese in evento giunto alla sua quarta edizione. Il nostro cibo – è cosa nota – ci qualifica nel mondo come specialist...
Carpani's Italian Seafood began as grief therapy
by Alan Morrell Carpani's Italian Seafood Grille started as a sort of culinary therapy for owner Mario Tartaglia. He had sold his three other local restaurants to care for his wife, Lena, who was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died in 2004, and three years went by before Mario realized it was time to move on, which is when he opene...
I got gout in my 30s, so I put myself — and my restaurant — on a diet
By Hailey Eber Read almost any article on healthy eating and it will tell you: If you want to clean up your diet, cook at home and don't eat out. Wily restaurant chefs are using unhealthy tricks that you can't even fathom to make their food taste great. But chef Marco Canora is out to change that. "There's a lack of transpare...
Great News: Lower Manhattan restaurants are well represented in the Italian Dine-Out!
Even greater news: You can get the deal of a lifetime at a number of the city's top Italian restaurants in downtown Manhattan neighborhoods such as East village, Noho, Tribeca and Financial District starting tomorrow, June 26th when the first ever Italian Dine-Out kicks off! We're talking delectable, authentic Italian food for incredible prices thr...
This New York sommelier makes Italian wines personal with their stories
"I think that you understand wine makers when you meet them," says Lang, a sommelier and chef in New York. "When you sit down and taste the wine in the place that it's made with the person who made it, that's as good as it gets." When Lang first started traveling to Europe and meeting winemakers, he realized that he could see the winemaker...
Dopo East: A Perfect Italian Hideaway
Ideally, an Italian restaurant should possess one or more of the following qualities: it should be a little out the way, serve excellent pasta and be able to make a tiramisu that causes you to question everything you thought you knew about life. It's a tall order to be sure, but Dopo East delivers on all fronts, easily making it one of the...
Ferraro’s owner strives to make patrons feel at home
Gino Ferraro and his wife, Rosalba, both came to the United States from Italy at age 12, when their families moved to Syracuse, New York. They met during junior high school in an English class for Italian immigrants and married in 1974. Two years later, Ferraro sold his Syracuse coffee shop to his brother and the couple moved to Las Vegas,...