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By Jasmin St. Claire   Being a native New Yorker is sometimes an advantage in West L.A. For one, I've always been better at cursing out cab drivers than the locals. There are disadvantages, too: I'm saddled with a New Yorker's palate. It craves the flavors and ambiance of the kind of old-school Italian restaurant you'd find in one of th...

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Well it's not New York, New York, but at Matt and Marie's Modern Italian sandwich shop in Center City, it's pretty close. These New York natives attended the prestigious Wharton School of Business, and then never left. For their dreams of retirement one day had them putting their heads together as young students at a diner way before grad...

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If you're planning on going out to grab a bite for dinner in Phoenix, you should probably plan on bringing a couple of Jacksons for the pasta dish you're ordering. A report from Zagat on dining trends for the Phoenix metro area said the average person will spend $30.85 on a dinner out, among some other interesting facts.   If we continu...

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by Ashok Selvam   It's a big day for the Stefani family as Mad Social finally opens, allowing Gina Stefani to branch out in the West Loop. Take a tour of the space here, as Stefani teams up with chef Mariela Bolanos and takes the torch as Phil Stefani Signature Restaurants' first new spot in 14 years.   Stefani's Italian heritage and...

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By Tom Mueller   Americans need top-quality Italian olive oil for many of the same reasons that they need, and love, Italy. Starting with variety: stretching from the Alps almost to Africa, the Italian boot harbors thousands of different microclimates and landscapes, where some 500 different olive cultivars grow: raw materials for countless...

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È proprietaria della pasticceria «Egidio Pastry», che con i suoi 103 anni di attività, è la più antica di New York, ed è una vera istituzione in fatto di dolci nella «Grande mela». Maria Carmela Lucciola, però, 62 anni originaria di San Giorgio a Liri, sogna di vendere la sua miniera d'oro e di tornare a vivere nel suo piccolo paesino nella provinc...

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by Marguerite Preston   Tonight Rossopomodoro, the Neapolitan pizza chain responsible for the pizza restaurant inside Eataly, opens its first standalone outpost in the former Cole's Greenwich Village space. The space is a clean, simple version of your average upscale pizzeria, outfitted with marble tabletops and pendant lights.   But...

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Discussing Italian food always proves to be quite a curious concept, as conversations tend to invariably focus on what Americans would refer to as “Italian classics,” such as chicken parmigiana, pizza, and tiramisù.   But what many fail to recognize is that these foods and fine pastas are not the only rudimentary dishes that encapsulate the...

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1 – Mamma in carriera o in casa? Secondo un'analisi dell'Istat, in Italia, circa il 50% delle madri hanno un lavoro, mentre la restante parte si dedica esclusivamente alla casa e ai figli. Le mamme americane sono più orientate al lavoro e alla carriera rispetto a quelle italiane: infatti, negli USA, circa il 70% delle mamme lavora, cioè 7 madr...

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by Kerry J. Byrne Frank De Pasquale was holding court with Gov. Charlie Baker on the Hanover Street sidewalk when we arrived Monday night at Mare Oyster Crudo and Seafood Bar, a 1-week-old addition to the restaurateur's North End empire.   The governor had just dined at De Pasquale's Bricco. It seemed a fitting political encounter for the d...

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