Ask Mary Reyes, owner of Egg Harbor City’s Assaggio! Restaurant what’s new and she proudly boasts that the restaurant has won some well-deserved awards — namely, an A.C. Weekly Nightlife Award for Best Happy Hour outside of a casino; Best Meatball at Resorts’ Italian Festival; and Assaggio’s Executive Chef Jorge Barreto won an A.C. Weekly Top 40 U...

Gli Stati Uniti sono il primo acquirente al mondo di prodotti agroalimentari: ecco perché per una potenza del settore, ed eccellente, come l'Italia, restano un mercato da conquistare al meglio. Con un valore superiore ai 130 miliardi di euro, gli Usa rappresentano il primo mercato al mondo per import di prodotti agroalimentari. Al secondo posto fig...

Craving Italian on Saturday and looking for somewhere or something different to try? Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Springfield's South End is holding its annual Taste of Italy festival offering over 40 favorite Italian main and side dishes from which to select for dinner, as well as a dessert table overflowing with sweet treats. The celebratio...

You'll love Bongiovi Pasta Sauces. They are authentic Italian sauces with the convenience that you will truly appreciate. These are sauces that make serving fine meals easy. You may recognize the name. It has been made famous by Jon Bon Jovi, the beloved New Jersey born musician and son of John Bongiovi Sr. We like the company's clever slogan, "Thi...

To say Ashley Shelton is busy would be an understatement. As the executive chef of not one but two restaurants, life moves at full speed She said, "If they were in different parts of the city, I would be in trouble." Ashley, who went to The Culinary Institute of America and spent a year working in Italy,  runs the kitchen at Pastaria and Sardella,...

Get a chance to meet chef Mario Batali — and feast on a buffet dinner of a few of his recipes. Batali will host a culinary demo and book signing at 5 p.m. on Oct. 4 at the Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave. in Orlando. The menu includes beet salad with baby spinach and goat cheese; chilled pea and scallion soup; cheese tortellini with kale p...

When Theresa Easterday's father moved his Dyer restaurant from a leased location to his own building, that provided the impetus for her to open her own establishment. On their fifth wedding anniversary Easterday and her husband, Andrew, launched Little Italy in November 2013 in the Crown Plaza spot where her father, Vince Cryns, used to run Pop's I...

Solare’s Accursio Lota nabs top prize. Eater recently reported that chef Accursio Lota of Liberty Station’s Solare Ristorante would be one of only two chefs chosen to represent the USA at the Barilla Pasta World Championship in Italy this week. After three rounds of competition in Milan, and beating out 19 chefs from other countries around the worl...

You grew up in New York City, your mom is a famous cookbook editor, and your dad is a talented home cook, right? “My parents definitely played into my career choice! My mother and father were always cooking. They generally didn’t cook together: Dad would make traditional Italian-American and Chinese food as a hobby, and my mother was all about the ...

J.D. Fratzke and Matty O’Reilly have been busy. Between summer 2016 and March 2017, they opened two restaurants, Red River Kitchen and Bar Brigade. And now they’ve added Delicata, a casual Italian eatery in the Como neighborhood of St. Paul helmed by Noah Barton (former executive chef at Chino Latino). The newest member of the family has a lot in c...