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The artisanal-food revolution is the fetishization of the human hand. Deindustrializing certain components of food production has been key to reinvigorating our love of real food in what’s otherwise an inglorious and hollow McWorld. It’s a renaissance that could be captured in image of 10 flour-covered fingers in a mixing bowl. So we have A Mano, t...

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Earlier this year, Milan-based design agency Ogilvy & Mather partnered with Nutella manufacturer Ferrero to unveil its "Nutella Unica" jars. The agency created an algorithm that generated 7 million unique permutations of Nutella jars, from an assemblage of various patterns and colors. Ferrero sold these jars in Italy throughout the month of Februar...

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Four Salerno brothers came to America from Italy in the late 1950s, opened a bar in Berwyn in 1966, and served up pizza, lasagna and other Italian food. The brothers used to go trap shooting on land west of St. Charles. A real-estate agent/friend convinced them to buy land in St. Charles on the Fox River, telling them, "How nice to be on the water,...

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The owner of an Italian restaurant in New Hyde Park is planning to open a sister eatery in Floral Park. Vinny DiRico, the owner of Luigi’s Restaurant & Bar on Union Turnpike in Queens and a 22-year Floral Park resident, plans to open a new spot called Rosalia at 86 S. Tyson Ave., he said in an email. The 4,280-square-foot space is the former home o...

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Boston and New York enjoy a number of (mostly) good-natured rivalries. When it comes to baseball, of course, any New Englander would deem the Sox superior. When it comes to pizza, though — even many lifelong Hub dwellers would hesitate to claim the crown. They shouldn’t, say Giancarlo Natale and Raffaele Scalzi, founders of the inaugural Boston Piz...

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The much anticipated opening of the Buona Beef restaurant in Frankfort will come to fruition on Thursday and those who wait in line early will get a free Italian Beef sandwich. Buona, The Original Italian Beef will officially open its 19th location at 20950 S. La Grange Road in Frankfort on Thursday, July 6 at 10:30 a.m. Those in line at 10 a.m. wi...

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Service was impeccable at Il Montebelloo and the food was amazing enough to stop conversation. Two different couples we’re friends with suggested that we try Il Montebello Italian restaurant in at King’s Way in Yarmouth Port. Both had dined there twice since it opened on Mother’s Day and both enjoyed it immensely. One of the couples agreed to go ag...

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Sacramento has had phenomenal Italian grocers for decades, but until recently the Italian restaurants didn’t follow suit. Yes, there’s Biba, that iconic fine-dining institution so famous that its namesake earns nationwide respect. But really, if you wanted good pasta on a weeknight, your best bet was Corti Brothers, the (late) Italian Importing Co....

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It’s hard to imagine Sicilian cooking without eggplant. You find it in every market, in every restaurant and certainly in every home kitchen. Having recently visited Sicily, I remember each eggplant binge fondly — and there were many. It is always fascinating to see how cuisines and cultures collide. Sicily has been fought over and ruled by many pe...

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When Phill Errigo -- who grew up in Huguenot cooking sauce on Sundays with his father and siblings -- heard of the North Shore revitalization, he knew he wanted "a piece of the pie." "At the time, I was working in back office finance in the city. When I was in college, I worked as a waiter and bartender so I always enjoyed working with people and t...

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