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by Ronald Holden Taking over the space on Broadway currently occupied by Corretto is a new pizza venture from Karim Bonjrada, whose tiny Sicilian café in Magnolia, Mondello, has just celebrated its 13th anniversary. The name, Pizzeria 88, is a tribute to a nightclub that Bonjrada's mother, "Mamma" Enza Sorrentino, ran in Palermo, Sicily, befo...

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"This is the best part of the whole meal," swoons Julie Mottes between spoonfuls of honey and brittle semifreddo atop Guanaia chocolate fondue. "You should write your story starting with dessert and work backwards." Considering the out-of-this-world-delicious meal we've been enjoying this particular February evening, Mottes' assertion is a bold on...

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Rossella Rago, the host of the popular webseries Cooking with Nonna, is partnering with Rienzi Foods, a leading producer and distributor of quality Italian foods in the US, to represent Rienzi Foods at the Italian Festivals in Boston, MA and Houston, TX as well perform a series of cooking demonstrations at selected ShopRite Supermarkets in the New...

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By John E. McIntyre Spaghetti and lasagna are all very well, but pizza is plainly the major Italian donation to the American diet. Susan Fillion celebrates both the pizza and its Italian origins in the slender but delightful Pizza in Pienza (David Godine, $17.95). The Pienza of the title is a little town in Tuscany which Ms. Fillion, a Baltimore...

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Gaetano's Restaurant, a venerable Italian-American spot in North Denver, has been sold, The Denver Post learned this morning.   Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC, which acquired the restaurant seven years ago, has sold it to Ron Robinson, a former member of the B-W group who left a year ago to fulfill his longtime dream of being a restaurant owner. T...

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For Bronxites and beyond, traveling to the Bronx's Little Italy is often compared to a trek to the old country. It's a destination. The smell of seasoned Italian sausage, blended with sights of Italian-named eateries and singers greeting its customers make the area a must-see. And behind a push to attract visitors to the destination is the Belmont...

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Italian food is notoriously the food of the world, loved by all due to its traditional flavours and textures. In bustling New York City, Italian food is never far away.   But, whilst the city may be renowned for Manhattan's Little Italy, this updated review of the top 10 Italian restaurants in NYC spreads its net a little wider to find those...

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New York has its thin-crust. Chicago has its deep-dish. Now Delray Beach has authentic Italian pizza, thanks to Mastino Wood-Fire Kitchen and Bar (25 N.E. Second Ave.), which just debuted in the Pineapple Grove district of Delray. At the center of the restaurant is a steel handcrafted wood-burning oven that was imported from Naples, Italy. It bake...

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Sinatra in Las Vegas, the restaurant, is an appropriately Vegas-style, well, contemporary Vegas-style tribute to the singer who is still equated with the raffish, heady days of the city as it grew into a gambling and entertainment Mecca.   Appropriate in that it's located in one of most the city's most luxurious hotel-casinos, that the resta...

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Paul Reitano has a healthy respect for his elders. While he never got to meet his great-grandfather, he grew up with stories of his immigration at age 21 from Reggio Di Calabria, Italy, his love of his wife, Carmella, and his successful bakery in New York.   Reitano made his own immigration of sorts by moving from New York to the Mountain I...

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