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Dolce Vita — a family-owned and operated Italian restaurant, gelato shop and grocer at 5251 E. Brown Road No. 104 in Mesa — is hosting a special Sicilian night dinner 4-8 p.m. Friday, April 28. The business has been serving authentic Italian food using only fresh and local ingredients without additives for more than 12 years. Dolce Vita has also pr...

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The Lioni Latticini Mozzarella Co. has been a pioneer in bringing high-quality, authentic Italian mozzarella and mozzarella di bufala cheese to the U.S. marketplace under the leadership of Giuseppe and Salvatore Salzarulo. Giuseppe Salzarulo, now age 75, was the first generation of his family to come to the U.S. from Italy in 1966. He started makin...

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It’s not every day the North Chesterfield neighborhood of Bon Air gets a new restaurant. Even more rare, the chance at a free lunch. On Wednesday, more than 200 people lined up at Genova’s Pizza Station & Take Out Kitchen at 2723 Buford Road just off Huguenot Road to get a free taste of the New York-style pizza, eggplant rollatini and paninis pile...

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It was 4 pm on Thursday, April 18, 1963, when, in the headquarters of the Parma Chamber of Commerce, 23 deli meat producers formed the Prosciutto di Parma Consortium on a private and voluntary basis and approved its bylaws, united by the conviction that by working together they would be able to safeguard and enhance their typical cured meat more ef...

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After nearly a decade serving Larchmont, Vernetti Restaurant – owned and operated by local couple Steve and Joanna Vernetti – will be closing at the end of May. The Vernettis took over the family-owned Girasole Cucina Italia in 2014 and elevated the level of food on Larchmont Blvd. In fact, when the Vernettis re-opened after a renovation and expans...

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Brooklyn Pizzeria, a locally owned and operated Italian restaurant group, will open its ninth Houston-area location at 8020 Fry Road, Cypress, in late May. Sammy Shahini, his father, Mike, and his two brothers, Jimmy and Ilir, opened the first location in Humble in 2006 with the goal of bringing authentic New York pizza to the Houston area. The Sha...

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PASTA is among the most popular foods consumed across the world today, and every pasta-eater has a favourite shape whose superiority they swear by. When the “cascatelli” (the word translates to “waterfall” in Italian) was introduced by James Beard Award winning food expert Dan Pashman in 2021, it joined a pantheon of over 350 pasta shapes. Just how...

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If you’ve been to Tuscany, you may be familiar with pizzicagnoli and their stores, which are pretty much the equivalent of a good deli, but also double as a local corner store in small villages. Pizzicagnoli stores are common all over Italy, especially in more rural contexts, but they are not called like that everywhere: “pizzicagnoli” are very muc...

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In 1996, La Pizza Fresca Ristorante rocked our pizza world by opening on 20th Street north of Union Square. It was an elegant spot with fancy wine and a wood-burning oven: unusual then, but commonplace now. It focused on pizza, but not the New York kind descended from places like Lombardi’s and Totonno’s. Instead, it claimed to serve the true pizza...

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A national chain specializing in Italian Ice and ice cream is about to open its first location in Pennsylvania, and it’s in the Lehigh Valley. Uncle Louie G will open  this month at 1700 Sullivan Trail in Forks Township. The chain, which began in Brooklyn, New York, has locations in New York, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina. The chain...

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