Emmy Award-winning celebrity chef and New York Times best-selling author Giada De Laurentiis' first-ever restaurant, GIADA, has received rave reviews since first opening in June, and now the popular restaurant is proud to offer a special locals appreciation offer of 20% off breakfast and lunch*, valid Monday – Friday through the end of March. With...
READ MORENoi italiani sulla cucina siamo suscettibili. Per antonomasia il nostro è il Paese della buona cucina, vantiamo chef stellati, ristoranti invidiati in tutto il mondo e ricette che fanno venire la bava alla bocca solo a leggerle. La cucina, infatti, è uno di quei campi in cui ci prendiamo qualche rivincita rispetto ai Paesi più ricchi e tec...
READ MOREby John Tredrea Sicily is where this story begins. In the 1970s, while still a teenager, Joseph D'Angelo emigrated from Sicily to Brooklyn. In high school there he met a girl Anna, who also had recently come to Brooklyn from Sicily. They fell in love, got married and had a son, Frank, and a daughter, Danielle. And all four of...
READ MOREby Emon Reiser Italian pizza chain Piola is taking over a space previously occupied by troubled fast-casual 100 Montaditos, which recently filed for bankruptcy in Florida. The pizzeria signed a 10-year lease for a 2,517 square-foot space at 11421 South Dixie Highway in Pinecrest in the Suniland Shopping Center, Terranova Corp. announced. The...
READ MOREby James H. Schwartz Take a seat at Meanwhile in Belfast, the new pizza restaurant that opened here in March, and you'll discover that pizza is a sensual meal – a feast for all the senses. There's the heady fragrance of fresh dough and the occasional whiff of garlic wafting from the kitchen and enticing customers (or passersby) to...
READ MOREby Claudia Baroncelli It seems a new food trend has recently emerged on the scene, as toast is getting a foothold in our culinary habits with many cookbooks being released in 2015 alone. Easy and quick to prepare, you can show off and experiment with an endless combination of ingredients and toppings, for both classic and exotic toasts....
READ MOREby Cheryl Makin It was to Mancini Pizza that Jax headed, straight from the airport the day after the "American Idol" finale. Missing her favorite pizza, Jax and her family had dinner together that night. Less than a week later, on May 19, an early-morning fire shuttered Mancini Pizza. The news spread fast on social media with...
READ MOREBy Siobhan Connally If you ask Chef Rocco Verrigni, a professor of culinary arts at Schenectady County Community College, to talk about holiday meals, you'll find his tastes are firmly rooted in childhood. "I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a multi-generational Italian home where food was important, but also in a household with a...
READ MOREAt the heart of Philly's best institutions are people tying them to the neighborhoods they've helped define while carrying on a proud tradition that resonates beyond their own community. Cappuccio's Meats is one of several places in The Italian Market that offer a glimpse at living history. At the center of everything are owners Harry...
READ MOREDiFonzo Bakery announced Sunday it would be moving back to its original Wilmington location. The popular, iconic bakery, which reopened three years ago in a renovated garage near Elsmere after nearly a 10-year absence, says it's "going home" this spring to its 812 N. Union St. location in the city's Little Italy neighborhood. After Di...
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