By Leslie Lake  Joe Bruno is a Brooklyn boy at heart and after closing the doors last week as owner of Pasta Nostra for the past 30 years, Bruno is taking his next venture directly back to his Brooklyn roots. Bruno's new restaurant Bruculino, Italian slang for 'guy from Brooklyn' is slated to open at the end of June in a former furniture...

by Robert Gallo   Taking on a bold and daring adventure, Pietro Busalacchi and wife Cristina immigrated to San Diego with their 7 children, Anna, Tony, Sal, Frank and Joe in 1966, leaving their hometown of Porticello, Sicily and came to settle in San Diego's Little Italy.    They worked hard to instill the Sicilian tradition and...

by Claudia Baroncelli   If there is a thing Italians love doing and know how to do right is eating, and this of course comprises cooking, and therefore hosting barbeque.   The Italian BBQ has a few differences with the American version, since the latter prefer much bigger meat cuts and more complex and longer processes such as ma...

by Carla Balzano   Chef and owner of Andiamo Restaurant in Newburyport, MA, James Rogers, will be opening a second location in Chelmsford, MA. The new location will be at 18 Boston Post Road, in a new building called "Chelmsford Town Center." Construction will start in September.   Rogers excitedly revealed that he gets to build a cus...

By Jacob Hamilton Alberto Gulino's family has been serving up slices of their Italian heritage from the day they came to Bay City from Sicily half a century ago.   And for the past six months, Gulino has been back at one of his family's original West Side locations cooking up wood-fired, Italian-style pies. Gulino's Pizza & Sons, 1406 N...

Food. Family. Fireworks! Festa Italiana 2013 will be held July 19-21 on Milwaukee's lakefront! At Festa, Tutti Italiani! #FestaMKE Festa Italiana Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 2, 2013...Festa Italiana is excited to announce this year's festival dates Friday, July 19 – Sunday, July 21, at Henry W. Maier Festival Park (Summerfest ground...

Nel contesto delle attività organizzate a Houston per il 2013 Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, lo Italian Community Cultural Center (ICCC) ospiterà dal 10 al 18 maggio la Settimana della Cucina Mediterranea Italiana, che celebrerà la fusione di sapori e culture che caratterizza il Mediterraneo e la sua influenza nella cucina italiana...

by Hannah Sayle   Here, in a cozy, well-appointed house in the heart of old Cordova, Cafe Fontana's chef/owner Thomas Schranz filters his earliest cooking memories through the lens of familiar Italian classics for an unforgettable dining experience.   "Twice a year my father traveled to Europe on business," says Schranz. "When he came...

By Sarah Meehan The fun continues at Canton Crossing, where another restaurant will join the lineup of shops and eateries. Venti-Tre, a fast-casual Italian restaurant, will open early next year at the Boston Street shopping center. Venti-Tre is a spinoff of Fazoli's, a Lexington, Ky.-based Italian chain. The Canton location is Venti-Tre's fi...

The Italian Trade Commission is delighted to collaborate this year on The International Day of Italian Cuisine! WHAT IS IT THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ITALIAN CUISINE EXACTLY?   It is the celebration of a traditional dish but also the promotion of Italian Culinary Culture. The International Day of Italian Cuisine/IDIC materialized as a rea...