by Mark Anderson With more than 600 stores in 25 states, Rita's Italian Ice has been offering cool treats since 1984. Now it wants to bring its ices, custards and sundaes to Sacramento. Santa Cruz County-based East Bay Ice Empire Inc. was awarded a franchise development agreement to open at least 75 Rita's stores over a period of years in...
READ MOREMancano ormai poco più di due mesi al GALA ITALIA che il 19 febbraio prossimo, nella elegante cornice del Pierre Hotel di New York, celebrerà il suo trentesimo anniversario e, al contempo, il grande successo del vino italiano negli USA. Tale successo sarà l'elemento conduttore e trainante di questa celebrazione, che alla trentennale continuità di...
READ MOREby Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer Like Anita Ekberg, Dolce Italian (Godfrey Hotel, 127 W. Huron St., no phone yet) plans to make a splash in early summer when it opens in Italian-crowded River North. Along with a second Dolce Italian in development in Atlanta, the Chicago location will join the famiglia of Miami's Dolce Italian, a...
READ MOREDopo il successo della prima video-intervista a Marco Casella pubblicata la scorsa settimana sul nostro portale, nella giornata odierna vi mostreremo quella all’Avvocato ed imprenditore Riccardo Pieroni. Riccardo arriva in America per motivi di studio dopo la laurea e dal 2010, si trasferisce a New York lavorando come manager nel settore...
READ MOREYou might feel like you're in Venice if you visit the Italian Festival of Arizona this weekend at SouthBridge in Scottsdale. Umbrella-shaded tables will be placed along the bridge to re-create the ambiance of the canal-laced city in northeastern Italy. "People can look over the canal while they eat dinner, kind of like you're in Venic...
READ MOREDuring the years of mass emigration from Italy to the US, one of the peculiarities of the Little Italies all over the US definitively was the street market. Many used to spend several hours on the street: people would work hard, start their small business, socialize with other "paisanos", meet friends and maybe future spouses, get a life away from...
READ MOREBy Syd Kearney Robert Del Grande, the first Houston chef to win a James Beard Award (1992's Best Chef: Southwest), will be inducted into the Wine & Food Week Chef of Chefs Hall of Fame on June 6. Del Grande is the chef behind RDG & Bar Annie and the Grove. The induction ceremony will take place during the Wine Rendezvous Grand Tasting...
READ MOREBy Heidi Knapp Rinella Tips come in from many different places, and in this case it was a regular reader and dedicated fan of a restaurant who just wouldn't give up. But, I told him, I'd looked at the menu on the restaurant's website and didn't think it was much different from any other Italian restaurant in the valley. Ah, but he tol...
READ MOREby Jennifer Biggs Lifelong Memphians remember a few choices for Italian food: You had Grisanti's, Coletta's or Pete & Sam's, and chances are one of them was your go-to place. There were various other Grisanti's and a handful of small spaghetti places, but these were the main ones. Except that for almost 30 years, Brooklyn Brid...
READ MOREby Elise Balzotti "There is nothing better than working with family," says Yano Petruzzelli, who owns and operates the New Deal Fruit Company located in Revere, Massachusetts, along with his two brothers, Nicholas and Domenic Petruzzelli. The New Deal Fruit Company, which can be categorized as a hybrid produce market, Italian spec...
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