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Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO, one of Italy’s finest cured hams, takes the spotlight at this year’s NYC Wine & Food Festival. Thanks to the European co-funded project “The EU Gem Ham”, Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO will offer festival-goers a chance to savor centuries of Italian tradition at the Grand Tasting Pavilion from October 18th to 20th, and at an...

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Ferraro Foods, a leading distributor of Italian specialty food products, is excited to announce the acquisition of Botticelli Food Service, the distribution arm of Botticelli Foods, a family-owned importer of high-quality Italian ingredients. The deal further solidifies Ferraro Foods’ leadership in supplying pizzerias and restaurants across the tri...

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I hear the words penne alla vodka and immediately I’m 12 years old again, sitting in the booth of my family’s favorite suburban Italian-American restaurant, a tacky trompe d’oeil “frescoed” ceiling overhead, wood paneled-walls all around, and the smell of fresh-baked ciabatta-style dinner rolls wafting through the air. The plaster columns by the do...

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I have always disliked the term "restaurant concept." It sounds so detached from what I truly love about restaurants. You know, a sense of individual identity − a sense that the owner or chef has a story to tell. So when I heard about a new Italian concept that is set to open in Covington in early November, I wasn't exactly enthused. However, when...

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Frank Iovine was born and raised in New York City, where food has always been a massive part of his upbringing and life. His love for cuisine started when he was very young in his Nonno and Nonna’s kitchen and continued to grow when he started working in a German deli owned by a man named Bruno, a chef who escaped from East Germany. Bruno taught h...

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They talk about Chicago, but Milwaukee has some of the best pizza west of Italy. This year, West Allis’s Flour Girl & Flame won several Shepherd Express Best of Awards, as did Balistreri’s on the West Side. On the East Side, there’s Carini’s and Zaffiro’s. Many swear by Papa Luigi’s in Cudahy. With its Italian American history, Bayview seems especi...

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Flavors of the sea seep into the large, fluffy tubes of pasta and the bright red sauce of the lobster paccheri at Adria, an Italian restaurant that recently opened at 1556 Second Avenue (between 80th and 81st streets). Replacing Gray Hawk Grill, an American diner that delighted customers for four years, Adria joins Aunt Jake’s, San Matteo, and La P...

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NYC-born Olio e Più, a sprawling spot to sit and sample Italy’s many regional cuisines and wines in one place, makes its anticipated D.C. debut this week. The charming new restaurant joins its fancy French sibling La Grande Boucherie, which made a grand entrance upstairs in the same Federal-American National Bank Building this spring (699 14th Stre...

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Located in Desert Ridge Marketplace, Marino’s Italian Kitchen and Bar offers indoor and outdoor seating, making it the ideal lunch or dinner spot before or after a shopping trip. With its inviting atmosphere, it’s worth a special visit all on its own. The restaurant features a large bar, vibrant greenery, and five red booths that line the back of t...

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Folks from Washington go hard for the Walla Walla sweet onion. In fact, it became the state's official vegetable in 2007. But the beginnings of this particular allium go far beyond the Pacific Northwest -- across an ocean or two, in fact. The seed for the onion that would eventually become the Walla Walla sweet came from Corsica, an island in the M...

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