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Negli Stati Uniti il 99 per cento dei formaggi di tipo italiano sono "tarocchi" nonostante il nome richiami esplicitamente le specialità casearie più note del Belpaese: dalla Mozzarella alla Ricotta, dal Provolone all'Asiago, dal Pecorino Romano al Grana Padano, fino al Gorgonzola.   È quanto emerge dalla studio della Coldiretti illustrato i...

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The new Via Umbriahas reopened its doors and you will want to be part of this experience ... starting now. Official reopening is in January but stop in today for a delightful and flavorful sneak peek. Remember the charming Geribi ceramics andTessitura Pardi textiles and Pardi wine, shelves full of Italian products? Well, they're all still ther...

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By Melissa McCart   People associate olives with the Mediterranean or California — not Western Pennsylvania. But if you've bought olives from an olive bar at the grocery store lately, they may well have come from DeLallo, the Italian market in Jeannette, just east of Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County.   In fact, DeLallo Foods has rise...

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By Shandra Martinez The Food Network's Iron Chef America Judge Mario Rizzotti will be stopping by six Meijer stores across the Midwest in January to cook up authentic Italian dishes. Rizzotti's cooking demonstrations are part of a tour sponsored by the Italian Trade Agency. As part of the promotion, more than 400 authentic Italian products li...

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Italian American Review *deadline for submissions extended to May 15* Italian and Italian-American food has a long history in the homes, markets, and restaurants of the United States. For many immigrants, the hunger and food shortages associated with la miseria (literally, "misery") were a primary motivation...

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Some may like pizza for breakfast, and some may not, but a Neapolitan restaurant in Greenwich Village now gives us that option. Last Thursday, Olio e Piu officially launched their 24-hour, 7 day a week menu, adding new dishes ranging from prosciutto and figs to mushroom cavatelli to pizza Nutella.   Olio e Piu offers two different views: a s...

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Chef and restaurateur Mario Batali has signed a deal for two cookbooks with Grand Central Life & Style, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group. The first cookbook will be written in collaboration with Washington Post writer Jim Webster, and will "look at farmers and their top products in 12 American states acr...

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Cibus Tec-Food Pack is a new exhibiting section dedicated to food&bev packing and packaging technologies aimed at becoming the landmark exhibition for this sector.   Scheduled for October 28th-31st, 2014, and organized by Fiere di Parma and UCIMA(Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers' Association, the National Trade Association for t...

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by Thomas Grillo   Mike's Pastry, the landmark Italian bakery in Boston's North End best known for its ricotta-stuffed cannolis, is planning to open a second cafe in Harvard Square this spring. The Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal unanimously approved a request to grant the pastry shop a fast food permit at a meeting last Thursday. Also in...

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by Samara Kalk Derby   Grampa's Pizzeria on Willy Street is one of Madison's best new restaurants. And now another grandfatherly spot, Nonno's — that's grandpa in Italian — could also be a contender for that title. Nonno's Ristorante Italiano, which opened Dec. 2 on Madison's West Side, might have seemed an unlikely prospect because it...

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