by Joanna Fantozzi The Olive Garden food truck, which features the casual Italian-American chain's new breadstick sandwiches, is hitting the road, as we reported last week. The truck is coming to Boston's North End — Beantown's Italian neighborhood — and the area's Italian restaurateurs are none too happy about their new mobile neighbors. "There...
READ MOREOn a recent weekend afternoon, Jeremy Mustakas flitted between working the barista station and helping scoop ice cream for local Crown Heights families. Earlier this month, the Brooklyn-raised, bespectacled business owner opened Elsie's Parlor (667 Classon Avenue, 718-717-8654) in the space that once held Crosby Coffee, which he also owned. ...
READ MOREby Domenick Rafter's It's a classic Italian tradition that still reigns over large family gatherings on Dec. 24th every year, even after several generations have brought Italian-Americans more into assimilation. While it shouldn't be surprising in a country surrounded on three sides by water, the tradition, called festa de bette pesch...
READ MOREBy Leslie Lake For the first time as owner of Quartina Trattoria and Vineria, Giuseppe Cinque has reached into his collection of vintage Christmas figures from his Italian childhood and created a traditional nativity scene at his Washington Street restaurant. Known as a Presepe, a popular Christmas display in the Napoli region of Italy, Cinque ha...
READ MOREby Susan Stapleton Tony Lemmo and his team at Café di Scala are back,now with a different name and a new monthly dining concept. Aposto, loosely translated from Italian, means "everything is right," said Lemmo, who closed his decade-old Café di Scala at the end of 2015. Now Aposto takes its place with ticketed dinners, brunches an...
READ MORECittà: HoustonPaese: STATI UNITIPeriodo di svolgimento: 01/10/2013 - 31/10/2013Partners: Promec ModenaDescrizione: La Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas propone l'organizzazione a Houston di una missione commerciale-promozionale rivolta alle aziende enogastronomiche del modenese che aderiscono al Consorzio Piacere Modena. La missione si svi...
READ MOREIl Montasio si conferma sesta forza nazionale tra i formaggi di latte vaccino, con la produzione e le vendite sostanzialmente inalterate rispetto all'anno precedente e l'export che segna un netto aumento. Questi i principali dati emersi ieri, a Codroipo, dove l'assemblea dei soci, presieduta da Franco Pancera, ha approvato il bilancio d'esercizio...
READ MOREThe "City of Trees" will become the "City of Eats" next month as Claremont is hosting its first-ever Claremont Restaurant Week – running for eight nights,July 9-16, 2013 – to showcase its many pubs, grills, sandwich shops, bakeries, and fine dining restaurants. Visitors will discover a wide variety of cuisines as 20 of the city's locally owned eate...
READ MORELa spending review familiare ci fa mangiare meno pane. Siamo in buona compagnia, peraltro, persino i francesi tagliano sulla baguette. Non è solo una questione di budget, io per prima non vado tutti i giorni dal fornaio, e in casa non faccio mancare le gallette di riso o di farro, perfetto e insapore alter ego dietetico del pane fragrante. ...
READ MOREBy Nicky D Cooks One of the greatest treasures that Pittsburgh has to offer is the Heinz History Center. When I first moved to the city, a visit to the History Center was on my list of the must things to do. While there I was able to gather in one place what a rich history the Steel City has to offer. I was glad that I had made the trip t...
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