by Michael Donadio ROME — On a sweltering recent morning here, customers from around the world crowded the aisles of the food market in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele near Rome's central train station, shopping for everything from plump Italian tomatoes and peaches to Thai basil, basmati rice and halal meat. "Ciao, capo!" a South Asian vendor s...
READ MOREAmerican food icon Alice Waters is a regular visitor to the Italian capital thanks to her work on the Rome Sustainable Food Project. Here she shares her insider tips with David Prior on where to find the city's best authentic flavours. Legend has it that when Alice Waters started her now iconic Chez Panisse restaurant in California in the...
READ MOREBy Summer Dawn Hortillosa / For The Jersey Journal Who's got the best cheese in town? Find out this weekend at the second annual Hoboken Mutzfest. On Sunday, guests will try mozzarella from local eateries and determine whose "mutz" is top. Competitors include defending champion M & P Biancamano, which won both the people'...
READ MORESi è conclusa con successo la missione imprenditoriale delle oltre trenta imprese pugliesi che hanno partecipato alla 60a edizione del Fancy Food Show di New York, il più grande evento di food & beverage del Nord America svoltasi dal 29 giugno al 1° luglio. Organizzata da Giusi Malcangi, presidente del Consorzio Sapori Mediterranei di Bari - c...
READ MOREIdeally, an Italian restaurant should possess one or more of the following qualities: it should be a little out the way, serve excellent pasta and be able to make a tiramisu that causes you to question everything you thought you knew about life. It's a tall order to be sure, but Dopo East delivers on all fronts, easily making it one of the...
READ MOREThe Vetri Family restaurant group has put in offers to bring its pizzeria concept to not one, but two Washington, D.C., locations. Two Pizzeria Vetri locations will be opening in the D.C. metro area. The leases aren’t signed yet, but they’re expected to open by the end of the fourth quarter this year or the first quarter of 2016, said Jeff Benjamin...
READ MOREThe story of Anacapri Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar is a romantic one. It's the story Giuseppe and Maria Zuozo, a young couple who fell in love with the burgeoning neighborhood of Pinecrest during a January 1990 vacation and decided to make a life for themselves there. After returning to their home in New Jersey, they sold their share in their re...
READ MOREAldo Campo, one of the Rome's top restaurateurs, opened Taste of Sicily, a brilliant restaurant featuring authentic Italian food and desserts at 6600 S Quebec St in Centennial, CO. To complete his visionary team and develop the original concept, Campo hired Chef Salvo Pavone, who has worked at some of the best restaurants in Italy and Sicily....
READ MOREA soli sei mesi dal lancio, il Piano straordinario per la promozione del Made in Italy agroalimentare negli Stati Uniti vanta numeri particolarmente positivi. Le attività promozionali realizzate nell'ultima parte di quest'anno negli USA, infatti, hanno registrato un incremento del 40% delle vendite di prodotti italiani autentici e l'inserimento di...
READ MOREby Paul Sullivan Joey Avery and David Lisenby plan to open Papa Roc's Italian Grill in the Somerset shopping center in February providing fine food in a casual atmosphere. The partners have more than 30 years of experience in the restaurant field, Avery said. "We are going for a more polished casual atmosphere, meaning we will have t...
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