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Someone once said that pizza contains all the elements of the food pyramid, and maybe she’s right. After all, it has grain in the crust, protein in the pepperoni, dairy in the mozzarella and vegetable/fruit in the tomato and oregano. Isn’t that about everything? Those of us who love Italy’s gift to the world would like to think so. After all, somet...

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This past autumn, I was beyond lucky to spend a few months alongside 15 Culinary Institute of America students in the picturesque city of Ugento, Italy. Through a partnership with the Puglia Culinary Center, the CIA offers students an immersive semester abroad to eat, cook and live Italian cuisine. Ugento is located on the inside heel of the boot i...

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There’s a first time for everything, and this time it was dancing. Not by me after discovering Viàle Pizza & Kitchen (which would have been unseemly for an anonymous restaurant critic), but by servers in a scene straight out of La La Land. One server was running late, and when she finally arrived, the other server broke into a grin and twirled her...

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TV star chef Giada De Laurentiis has been spending a lot of time in Las Vegas since she opened her very first restaurant at the Cromwell on the Strip more than three years ago. She was back in town Saturday for an extra special occasion — Nevada Ballet Theatre’s 34th annual Black & White Ball at Wynn Las Vegas, where she was honored as “Woman of th...

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As if Olive Garden hadn’t already pissed off enough grandmas from the old country, the chain is now serving some sort of Italian nachos monstrosity. The new dish is officially known as “loaded pasta chips,” and it’s comprised of fried lasagna pieces topped with mozzarella and parmesan cheese; meat sauce containing chicken, meatballs, and sausage; c...

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Katherine S. reached out to us on Facebook to suggest Bella Pizza in Hillcrest. She must really enjoy it as her post was in all-caps and even included some pizza emojis. And, Codie on Facebook enthusiastically entered Bella as well in all caps. Our Mike Tanzini stops by the small-town pizza shop that creates big time flavor. "I started off washing...

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There is something a careful traveler would not miss: in every corner of the planet, it seems Italian food is considered a byword for quality and taste. Nomisma’s forecast of Italy’s agri-food exports for 2017 seems to confirm this trend: a 6% growth compared to 2016. This figure has also been confirmed by the Foreign Trade Institute, which recorde...

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The TA Restaurant Group announced the opening of a new Fazoli’s restaurant in Oklahoma City West located at I-40, Exit 140 (South Morgan Rd.), in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The new Fazoli’s will serve their delicious variety of classic Italian dishes, baked pastas, pizza, Submarinos sandwiches, entree salads and desserts—along with their unlimited si...

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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it . Boldness has  genius, power and magic in it.  Start now. Just by marrying these words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 2018 the partnership between Gustoso Export Promotion Italia and Sicilian Mood was officially born. Two Made in Sicily projects that have joined forces to increase the promotion of S...

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Casa Nuova Italian Restaurant today announced to residents of Alpharetta, GA that it is holding a year-long celebration to mark twenty years of serving up plate after plate of Southern European cuisines to the local community. The celebration will be marked throughout the year with monthly events and special occasions, starting in February, exactly...

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