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Italian-American food grew out of Italian but takes advantage of ingredients and techniques most common here.   So when prominent Center City restaurateurs Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney turned their attention to Italian-American, they crafted a menu that would be at home in South Philly but with uptown touches.The two made their mark prev...

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By Teresa Politano Let the big-name American celebrity chefs - the Mario Batalis, the Michael Whites, the Gabrielle Hamiltons - seek the authentic, ancient and rustic foods of Italy by traveling to remote villages to extract secrets from grandmothers. Chef Francesco Panucci was born in one of those villages, grew up with those secrets, and fondly...

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Casa Belvedere is very pleased to announce the arrival of Chef Frank Bilotti as the Italian Cultural Foundation's new, young, dynamic, creative and talented Executive Chef. Most recently, Chef Bilotti was at Bin 5, the fifth establishment in the Da Noi collection of restaurants.   "The entire team at Casa Belvedere is looking forward to work...

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By Andrew Z. Galarneau   What a restaurant decides to give you for free can tell you volumes about the place. At Casa Antica, when you sit down an abbondanza appears, three kinds of bread – baguette, garlic knots and pizza – plus a triple-threat relish tray of caponata, pickled vegetables and chunky olive-garlic mash.   The message is...

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by Nancy Vienneau   Gina Stellino says that her husband, Joey, a first generation Sicilian-American, grew up so immersed in the world of Italian food that he "might as well have been born on a pizza table."   The secrets of garlic-rich sauces, blistered pizza crusts, tender stuffed pastas — all were taught to him from an early ag...

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An authentic Italian deli should not be out of the ordinary in North Beach, or even in San Francisco in general, with its local fervor for wood-oven fired pizzas and burratas. But it is. There are rare delights at the Italian Homemade Company that could make even the most settled San Francisco residents feel like tourists in Little Italy. Inside,...

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Di Paolo's Italian restaurant began life as an authentic Italian deli located in the heart of Penns Grove. Fast forward more than 40 years, and the business has grown into a shining example of fine Italian cuisine and is known as one of New Jersey's best kept secrets.   Upon stepping into Di Paolo's, you are immediately transported back to o...

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Pomo Pizzeria Napoletana is opening a location in Glendale's Citadelle Plaza this month.The critically acclaimed pizza restaurant is set to open in a 6,500-square-foot space that was formally occupied by Tutti Santi by Nina, just south of Loop101 on 59th Avenue.   A wood-fired brick oven, crafted in Naples, Italy, was shipped overseas for th...

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CiboDivino Marketplace and Caffe, Daniele and Christina Puleo's Italian market-deli-bar, is finally taking shape at Sylvan Thirty (say CHEE-bo da-VEEN-o). And Daniele is promising it will be open by April 1, just in time to take advantage of spring weather on the spacious patio.   What is CiboDivino exactly? A mini-marketplace that encompass...

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"Botte piccola fa buon vino," or "big things come in small packages," is precisely the colloquialism one could use to describe Bella Verona, a quaint but highly regarded treasure in the vivacious, historic, downtown Salem. Slightly dwarfed by the large Hawthorne Hotel located across the street, Bella Verona certainly stands out, however, to patrons...

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