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A couple weeks back, I participated in a Twitter chat (#pantrychat, Tuesdays at 4 p.m.) on cookbooks. It was a blast to see what people across the country had to say about cookbooks, from favorite to most sentimental — and the strong opinions of some about never using one. I also loved sharing about my mom's stain-splattered "Joy of Cooking," the s...

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The West Virginia Division of Culture and History's Culinary Cultures program will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday.The program features sessions with chefs and food specialists from around the state. Monday's session is "That's Italian" with Jeremy Still of Edgewood Country Club.The sessions each include three classes and cost $60 per person. Th...

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Frank Poma grew up in his family's kitchen — "I was peeling garlic when I was 5 years old," he says — and even worked for a while in a banquet center. But it was his cousin in Sicily — Salvatore Monteleone — who became a chef with his own restaurant.   Then Monteleone came to the U.S. and the two began talking about opening a place together...

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When Jason Mueller opened an Italian restaurant in Morris eight years ago, he was chided for thinking that dishes he made — like scallopini, marsala, wild mushroom pancetta or butternut squash ravioli and lobster — would find an audience in the heart of rural Minnesota.   He proved his critics wrong and has since opened three Bello Cucina re...

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Starting Tuesday, a hot salami truck will be making its way around St. Louis each weekday. Gioia's Deli Food Truck will serve up its hot salami, roast beef, salami and beef, Italian trio, poor boy, turkey, the veggie and porknado downtown, in company parking lots and industrial parks. The truck will also be present at festivals and events such as...

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More than two years after his untimely death, Carmine Smeraldo is still a presence at Il Terrazzo Carmine, in part because so much is still done his way at the restaurant he founded in 1984.   A portrait of him hangs near the entrance, where he used to welcome guests, many of them known to him. The nameplate simply says "Boss." Relaxed and s...

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The pace of workaday life in America has necessitated relatively short lunch hours and the need for workers to consume food fairly quickly, usually at or near work. Italy's cured meats, stemming from the historical need to preserve scarce resources, have proven ideal for sandwiches, the perfect quick and portable meal.   Prosciutto, salami,...

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Paul's Focacceria opened in 1904, the same year the ice cream cone was invented and Cy Young threw the first perfect game. Paul's was located on a residential street just a few blocks away from the Brooklyn piers, and it served traditional Sicilian sandwiches to the local Italian community and Italian longshoremen clamoring for a taste of home. &n...

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Maple Avenue is getting a trio of restaurants that includes Kansas City-style barbecue and an Italian restaurant from Nonna owner Julian Barsotti.   It's part of a $3.5 million development called the Maple Avenue Dining District that will buttress a residential development from Crow Holdings in the Oak Lawn neighborhood, including the restor...

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Whether you refer to it as spaghetti sauce or gravy, either way you’re going to use your bread to mop up the remainders, especially when you find an Italian restaurant serving up the best. But trying to find the best tiramisu, veal cutlets, homemade pasta or osso buco is never an easy task.   Never fear. We culled through the Las Vegas din...

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