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For the second consecutive year, the long-awaited "Battle of the Chefs" took place in the heart of North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco, the center of Italian culinary heritage. The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club was the host of this one-of-a-kind night, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, represented by Director Paolo...

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by Brenda Benois   Serving more than 24 pizza varieties and offering an extensive assortment of salads, pastas and grilled fish and meat, diners enjoy Northern Italian cuisine that use the highest quality ingredients at reasonable prices.   We started with the Polpette Di Granchio, a divine pan-roasted crab cake complemented with basi...

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Located on a bustling stretch of Irving Park Road, Sabatino's is as mired in the past, with a clientele that keeps aging alongside it, as everyone says it is. When I stopped in at 6 p.m. for a Wednesday evening dinner, the first wave of early birders were already on their way out the door.   Though the sun was still shining, it felt very, ve...

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One reason Sicilians tend to identify with Sicily first and Italy (a distant) second? Sicilian food. The same goes for Veneto in the north or Puglia in the south. Italy is a young country -- it only celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2011. Despite the successful export of the "Italian restaurant," the idea of a unified Italian cuis...

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Two Italian favorites are teaming up as Top Chef fan-favorite Fabio Viviani joins Columbus Foods for its "Meat Up" food truck tour, inviting Americans to explore the simple Italian goodness of premium salumi and deli meats.   They're hitting the road this April and May, spending a week each in Scottsdale, Salt Lake, Boston, New York Metro an...

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The Italian-American tradition of eating seafood on Christmas Eve stems from Catholic abstention of meat, but there's nothing limiting about the Feast of the Seven Fishes. The meal, typically a multi-course affair offering an ocean's worth of seafood, is a delicious holiday tradition regardless of religion or dietary principles.   Many Washi...

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  WTI Magazine #56    2015 March, 20Author : Expo 2015      Translation by:   Exhibition site: Cardo and DecumanoIn many modern cities, the cross, typical of the roman camp – or castrum – is still evident as the form of the town. It was a distinctive perpendicular shape and the two street crossings were known as the Cardo and the Decumano. This...

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Privately owned by the fourth generation of its founding family Parma, Italy-based Pasta maker Barilla, has achieved ubiquity, both in Europe and the U.S. Founded in 1877, it's about the closest to an authentic experience as you can get from mass produced pasta in a box.   But for all its success Barilla isn't resting on its laurels. It anno...

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by Larry Davis   Since it first opened its doors in 2011, crowds have packed the Holy Grail. It was the first establishment in at the Banks and it has a key location right across the street from Great American Ball Park. Co-owner Paul Goebel says The Banks has been good for the "Grail."   "We were, actually about half the streets were...

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By Wally Kennedy Last week, when I suggested that a new day was dawning for pizza in Joplin with the opening of Midtown Pizza Kitchen, 1212 S. Main St., some people thought that comment was over the top. Well, Joplin's pizza scene is truly changing.   I did not have enough space last week to tell you that an Old Chicago restaurant is c...

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