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The owners of Geraci’s have plans to open a full-service Italian restaurant in downtown Willoughby, another new investment in the city. The Spoth family hopes to have the restaurant open sometime this month in the former Dog’s on Erie location, 4127 Erie St. According to Economic Development Director Tom Thielman, the new location is a cozy, inviti...

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We’ve got a lot of secrets here at Italy Segreta, but the fact that pasta is exceptional certainly isn’t one of them. Everyone knows this, and yet few dare venture past the same ole varieties that are constantly in the spotlight: tagliatelle, spaghetti, rigatoni, tortellini, ravioli, and the likes. Although we live in the motherland of pasta, we st...

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Three o’clock in the morning, I’d wake to the smell of peppers and onions frying, my grandfather in the kitchen. Then the sound of sizzling, him adding eggs for the sandwiches we’d eat later when we were out on the water. I grew up in a four-family redbrick apartment building in the Italian section of Elizabeth, New Jersey, where I shared a bedroom...

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What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the word “diet?“ For most people, diet means giving up enjoyable foods, regimented eating hours, and counting calories. Dig a bit deeper into the origins of the word and it becomes more palatable: The word "diet" comes from the Greek word "diata," which means a way of life or living. F...

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New Jersey is home to more than a few great Italian food markets. Some are massive and offer a huge variety of Italian specialty foods. We also have some little hidden gems in small towns all over the state. I found this one purely by accident and I can't believe what a find it was. I was googling Italian bakeries in my area and this one popped up....

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Rocco’s Village Bakery has found a second lease on life on South Meriden’s Main Street. The bakery, which occupied a location in New Haven for 40 years, closed in June after the owners Antonio and Anna DiBenedetto decided to retire, unable to keep up with the work demands at their age.  Their son Ferdinando DiBenedetto, the lead baker in the establ...

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From the analysis of the Monitor on Italian agri-food districts, curated by the Intesa Sanpaolo bank Research and Studies Department, a positive trend emerges in the first half of 2023 (+5.3% year-on-year), amounting to over 13 billion euros in exports. This result also includes a significant price effect: the estimated export price increase for th...

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Enjoying Italian food without eating gluten might seem as impossible as trying to find an open spot at the spiaggia libera on the Amalfi Coast in August. The entire cuisine is seemingly built upon the backs of pizza and pasta, not to mention the country-wide rituals of a morning cornetto, lunchtime panino, and torta for dessert.  Famous regional sp...

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It takes quality products and truly loyal customers to carry a business half a century Armed with soft pepperoni rolls dripping with cheese and fluffy, plump meatball sandwiches, that has been Capri bakery's formula for success. A staple at 4832 Greenfield Rd. just north of Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, Capri has developed an almost cult-like follow...

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Vetri Cucina at Palms was at a high when it closed in 2020, along with the property, during the pandemic, with the venue on the 56th floor drawing a capacity crowd every night. Disappointment was high when Palms and Vetri Cucina remained shuttered—and many a foodie rejoiced when the Italian restaurant reopened along with the resort, in 2022. The re...

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