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LA 10 was once one of the busiest routes across our state, today just a few cars trickle through. Trees hang over the roadway and the train still passes now and again. As we travel along we end up in Melville, a tiny town on the banks of the Atchafalaya River. A community of a little over a thousand, but most businesses have left town. Except one,...

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The menu never changes at the Italian Express Pizzeria, an agreeable little place on the corner of Sumner and Cottage streets in East Boston. “That’s because it works,” says co-owner Jim Iannuzzi, proudly, and a little defiantly. “Everything is made fresh to order, and we have something for everybody. So, no, we won’t ever change the menu.” Why sho...

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Michael Nagrant finds the muffuletta of his dreams at Rosie’s Sidekick. The sandwich shop, an offshoot of Italian bakery Sicilia, offers a host of delights. Eggplant parm is “supremely slutty, the cheese oozing over the flaky bread and the sauce and juicy eggplant dripping out the edges.  This was some serious Tony Soprano-shit.” The aforementioned...

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Italian food exports set a new historical record with a 3% increase in the first quarter of 2018, approaching for the first time the value of 10 billion euro. This is what emerges from an analysis by Coldiretti on Istat data for the first three months of the current year. This is an excellent result right at the beginning of the Year of Italian Foo...

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Velocity Honolulu, the luxury car dealership located on the ground floor of Symphony Honolulu on Ward Avenue, is home to high-quality cars, the Italica coffee shop and panini bar, and now an Italian restaurant: Le Radici. Velocity’s new fine-dining concept celebrated a packed private grand opening last week with Champagne cocktails and pūpū from It...

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Kids in Stamford learned about Italian culture Wednesday with an in-school cooking lesson from professional chefs. Maurizio Ricci, owner of Osteria Romana and Romancci's Restaurants, along with one his executive chef, visited second-grade students at Strawberry Hill School. The duo helped students make their own homemade pasta. "I think all of lear...

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Sal Ferrante is passionate about tomatoes. He starts talking about the importance of tomatoes and how having the right ones make all the difference in the world between a good sauce or a bad sauce and, well, he says, "Let me show you."  He imports his tomatoes from Italy. They're the best tomatoes in the world. He goes into the kitchen at his resta...

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"Io la Nutella l'ho vista nascere, ci lavoravo quando ancora si chiamava Supercrema e aveva il coperchio rosso e non bianco". Marina Vivalda è un'ex dipendente della Ferrero, ha lavorato negli stabilimenti di Alba dal 1958 al 1994 e racconta in prima persona la storia della crema spalmabile più famosa al mondo. "Dovevo assaggiarla ogni mattina per...

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With beautiful plate by plate, by plate presentation, it’s tough not to begin the Taste of the Town segment on the tasting part. But, we’ll get to that. Biella Ristorante is located in Sunny Isles Beach. The restaurant is sophisticated with a modern, yet formal feel. Biella is the brainchild of owner Gonzalo Carnevalli and his family. It was create...

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Pizza fans, take heed: there's a new spot in town to get your fix. Located at 3801 N. Clark St. in Wrigleyville, the new arrival is Aurelio's Pizza.Since its inception in 1959, this chain has opened stores in Indiana, Illinois and Florida. It offers classic pies, like the The Works, with Sausage, ham, pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms, cheese; or...

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