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The Sicilian Butcher will soon be slicing up its popular Italian eats in the Southeast Valley. Scottsdale-based the Maggiore Group plans to open a second location of its north Phoenix concept in Chandler at the Viridian PrimeGate development. It will occupy a 4,600-square-foot space at 3151 W. Frye Road and is slated to open in December. The Sicili...

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Daniel Parillo spent summers as a kid traveling between his local home and his grandparents’ goat, chestnut, and fig farms in Caserta, Italy. There, in his grandmother’s kitchen in the Campanian countryside, he first learned to love the smell and taste of wood-fired pizza, meat, and vegetables. “It’s like night and day,” Parillo said in a recent in...

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Astros owner Jim Crane’s luxe Italian spot next to the ballpark could have been just another vanity restaurant. Instead, under chef Danny Trace, it’s home to some very personal Creole Italian food that draws on Trace’s Louisiana and Italian family roots. He buys great regional ingredients from places like Covey Rise Farm and Waco’s Brazos Valley Ch...

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In more frankenfood-we-didn’t-know-we-needed news: the “PizzaRitto” is thing. On the menu at  Russo’s House of Pizza in Pearl River, New York, it’s what they call an “infamous belly bomber taking on all mouths of all shapes and sizes coming from all over.” And like the moniker suggests, it’s basically a burrito made of pizza and stuffed with Italia...

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When Angelo Locicero and John Marcano opened Angelo’s Italian Market in Little Silver, they faced quite a few challenges in making a name for themselves and re-establishing a level of trust with customers at that location on Oceanport Avenue. “When we first got here, this place had sort of a bad reputation to it,” Locicero said. “A few businesses h...

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Tickets are now on sale for the Taste of Italy Gala to be held on Friday, Oct. 5, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Lincoln City The annual benefit dinner will start at 5 pm with a no-host wine bar, appetizers, live music and a silent auction. Guests will be served an Italian dinner, including salad, a lasagna, breadsticks and tiramisu. Gluten-fr...

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Looking for a yummy Italian meal near you? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the best affordable Italian restaurants around Pittsburgh, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to venture next time you're on the hunt. 1. Fiori's Pizzaria Topping the list is locally owned and operated Fiori's Pizza...

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Much like the team whose action he describes, Syracuse Crunch broadcaster Lukas Favale hungers for success. And oh, what an appetite he has. Favale showed off a palate that's as impressive as his pipes last week by winning the meatball eating contest at the Italian Fest at Clinton Square. Favale chowed down 10 meatballs in one minute. "It's probabl...

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Over the years, people looking for a traditional, heartfelt Italian meal have headed to downtown DuBois, where the walls are filled with customers’ smiling faces and the owner stops by every table just to say “hello.” Luigi’s Ristorante & Catering, located on North Brady Street, is celebrating 20 years of service this month. Owner Eddie Tate said h...

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Grana Padano cheese is still the best selling PDO product in the world. Production in 2018 is around 5 million wheels and exports have reached almost 2 million wheels, equal to 40.5% of total production. These figures were presented during the Grana Padano Consortium’s general assembly on 20 September. “Compliance with the production plan to date h...

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