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Piccolino is the Santa Fe exception: a family-owned, family-oriented and seriously local place that doesn’t serve New Mexican food. It’s all Italian all the time here. The pages-long menu has every Italian classic you can think of and I found myself wondering if the kitchen staff numbered in the dozens, all invisibly at work concocting sauces and w...

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Prime Steakhouse in Aiken has a new sister restaurant that is 22 miles away in Edgefield. Nonna’s opened last week at 206 Main St. Randy Stamm owns both eateries, but Nonna’s isn’t a carbon copy of Prime. “It’s a totally different experience,” Stamm said. “Prime is an upscale big city steakhouse. Nonna’s is ‘casual chic’ and very family friendly.”...

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If you lived in Italy, you might recognize the name Francesco Palmieri. He’s a master gelato maker, renowned instructor, and a force in the gelato world there. Daniele Buzza, raised in Sardinia, learned how to make gelato in Milan under Palmieri and then went on to apprentice at a gelateria in Athens. Now he is the gelato maker at the new Italian C...

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A modern Italian restaurant that also pays tribute to Birmingham's industrial past is the latest addition to downtown's Pizitz Food Hall. The restaurant, Fero, will open for dinner beginning this Saturday, July 8. "Fero is Latin for steel, and we wanted to pay homage to and recognize the city's history as a steel town," Matt Wagman, a co-owner of t...

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Regina Hale and her husband Mark had never eaten fresh mozzarella until they moved to Jeannette. While they waited for their deli order at DeLallo's Italian Marketplace, they sampled some of the fresh cheese that Don Grosser was making in the back of the store, like he has for nearly 30 years. “It was very different, but it was good,” Regina Hale,...

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If there's anything we in North Jersey love, it's pizza. So good news: a new Neapolitan pizza joint has made its way this month to The Promenade in Edgewater. BYO restaurant Izzy's Pizzeria is owned by longtime restaurateurs Dimitri Vlahakis (Motorino Pizza, Esperanto and La Gamelle in New York City and Peter Hajiyerou (Greek Taverna in Edgewater)....

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Italy’s Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium is investing €1.2 million to increase sales in the US market by 10% in 2017. Last year, the US was the top foreign market for the Consortium. Actions will also be taken against imitation and 'Italian sounding' products, which deceive 67% of American consumers by using the Italian flag or other Italian symbols...

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ISTAT’s data on Italian families’ spending habits in 2016 confirm the moderate recovery that began in 2014 (+1% in comparison with 2015, and +2.2% in comparison with 2013, a negative year for the ‘excellence’ bracket). This data shows shifts in consumption that bear the hallmarks of a long crisis period. These shifts in perspective may be more posi...

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It’s not just the food, it’s the table that matters. Adriana Trigiani, author of 17 books and director of “Big Stone Gap,” the movie based on her first novel, said she’s spent a life mining how Italian-Americans come to the table together. Though Italian-Americans agree on little, they come to the table as equals. “We’re all the same level at th...

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Last year, Starbucks invested in Italian-food purveyor Princi to bring its bakery goods stateside to New York and Chicago. Now, the chain is moving one step closer to that goal by opening a Princi kitchen and commissary in Red Hook. The Milan-based bakery specializes in pizza, pasta, antipasti and egg dishes–although no word on what exactly it will...

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