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by Chuck Gibson   Home-cooked authentic Italian hoagies and pasta are coming to St. Columban Church festival June 26-28 in Loveland. Greg and Gloria Ionna will serve up home-cooked meatball hoagies, Italian sausage hoagies and rigatoni pasta meals at the church festival this year.   The journey from the Ionna family table to the...

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by Olee Fowler Pizza, pasta and cocktails are the name of the game at newcomer La Moderna. The Italian restaurant, which has an outpost in Rome, opens its American location in Sunset Harbour.   On the menu expect, "Italian dishes with a modern twist," like spaghetti with Osetra caviar, squid-ink ravioli stuffed with cod and pizza made using...

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Puccia is like pita bread's Italian cousin, but thicker and with a softer texture. The outside is toasted to a mild crisp in a pan and the bread is then used for simple sandwiches. At lunchtime, Sud Italia offers three types of puccia in the style of the Puglia region.   The one named after the city of Foggia is lavished with luscious 'nduja...

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By Kim Westerman How is it that there are so many variations on the theme of flour, water, yeast, tomatoes and cheese? What makes pizza "authentic?" This food with Italian origins is now an American staple, and there are more styles than you can shake a stick at, the most common in the Bay Area being traditional Italian and Californian.   T...

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by Pamela Silvestri   Staten Island's elusive Fig Fest is back again for its fifth year. As the crowd grew too large for the original venue (the Turtle Fountain at Midland Beach), a private venue has been sought ever since.   The celebration will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 15, starting at 6 p.m. — that's an hour earlier than usual — at...

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There's something comforting about Italian food, a sort of sink-back-in-your-seat sort of satisfaction. It happens whether you're dining at your neighborhood café, or a modern hangout like Nove Italiano.   Located at the top of the Palms Fantasy Tower, Nove, which recently celebrated nine years at the Palms, commands excellent views of the S...

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We know that Italians have a big heart. In the Italian American community there's plenty of examples, and today we are very happy and proud to meet one of them, who has been doing for 10 years something extraordinary.   His name is Bruno Serato, and every day he feeds pasta for free to almost 1,800 kids. Every single day, with Caterina's Club. So...

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by Josh Baines New York, New York. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. The home of the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, and a branch of M&M's World. We've never been but we've heard all about it.   Our friends have told us it's really cold in the winter and really hot in the summer and that you can buy face-sized slices of pizza...

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Merante Brothers Market has brought the old neighborhood market back to the neighborhood, providing locals with quality foods, Italian specialty items, and something more—a chance to relax in the market's European-style cafe, and enjoy (or pick up) family dinner in the rustic cucina. More than a market, it's a celebration of what the Merantes hold...

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A South Florida restaurant is celebrating a quarter century of bringing a family's Italian traditions to the Sunshine State.   Caffe Abbracci in Coral Gables has been serving up delicious dishes and pleasing plenty of customers since it opened in 1989. "We pay attention to the details," said Nino Pernetti, the restaurant's Venetian owner. "W...

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