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By George and Linda Smith We enjoy Italian-American food, but despaired of ever finding the authentic Italian food we love without having to leave Maine — until we got to Gagliano's Italian Bistro in downtown Augusta. It was an amazing surprise!   Linda: "I've been searching for authentic Italian food ever since our first trip to Italy. It'...

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Fans of fine food and wine are cordially invited to attend one of Houston's finest culinary festivals. The 10th International Risotto Festival will be held on Sunday, November 10 from 2 to 6 pm at The Houston Design Center.   This gourmet strolling event includes an afternoon of delicious Italian foods and wine including samplings of antipas...

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With one glance you know that this is not your average Italian cookbook. The cover photo isn't the usual beautiful food shot or pastoral Tuscan landscape. The cover of The Food Pusher's Cookbook graphically shows the scant remains of what used to be a platter of pasta, apparently just decimated by a hungry horde.   The food pusher strikes ag...

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by Eric Kiefer   Blue Eyes, a new Italian eatery at the Sinatra Park café in Hoboken, will celebrate its soft opening this Friday, April 17, with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 5 p.m. The restaurant will begin serving customers on Sunday, April 19.   According to a release, Blue Eyes will feature a wood-burning oven which can prepa...

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Fratelli's Italian Eatery in the Stony Brook Village Center is excited to welcome their new Pizza Chef, Food Network Alumni, Francesco Ilardi, to expand their gourmet pizza business. His innovative ideas and gourmet pizza creations have reinvigorated an already appetizing menu at Fratelli's.   Francesco, who has over 25 years of experie...

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Another Italian restaurant will fill the space left by Pasquale's in downtown East Dundee. Dino Mondelli, who operates Dino's Pizza and Pasta in Lake in the Hills, is leasing the site at 310 N. River St., to open LaTavola Ristorante & Pizzeria. Pasquale's Pizzeria & Delicatessen shut its doors last month after about a year in busi...

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  WTI Magazine #66    2015 August, 21Author : Elda Buonanno Foley      Translation by:   When you ask for the bill at an Italian restaurant, you might raise your eyebrows by seeing an item called "pane e coperto". With this, we indicate the fee related to having eaten at the restaurant and for having had the pre-dinner bread. Yes, the delicious...

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by Julie Harans   In the age of outlandish froyo toppings and artificial flavors, it's time to get back to basics. Fortunately, a new kind of frozen dessert store will take root in Miami Beach this October, and it's bringing back the homemade touch that the sweet treat scene has been missing.   Jodi's Italian Ice is as authentic as a...

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Chef Antonio Mermolia and entrepreneur are two capatostas, an Italian expression meaning a volitional and stubborn type, someone who takes a different path despite knowing it will not be an easy one.    "Our chosen path is the Italy of the South, an auteur South that has still to be explored," explains Mermolia, "In particular I fo...

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In response to decades of increased incidents of adulteration and fraud in the Italian hard cheese category, U.S. hard cheese leader Arthur Schuman Inc. (ASI) today announced the creation of the industry's first trust mark for quality assurance.   The new True Cheese™ seal is intended to verify the integrity and quality of cheeses ASI makes...

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