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If you love Italian sagre and fairs, then you must have tried panino con la porchetta at least once. Indeed, the slowly-roasted, then-sliced delicacy is a staple of Italy’s most traditional street gatherings, so much so it has become almost synonymous with them. And if it’s true that porchetta found its contemporary fame thanks to its connections w...

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Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace, a Long Island-based specialty grocer, will open its long-awaited first store at the Jersey Shore on April 21. It's located at 990 Shrewsbury Ave., a large 56,000-square-foot store in Tinton Falls Plaza that was formerly an Acme market. Doors open at 7 a.m. with a ribbon cutting at 10:30 a.m. With other New Jersey locat...

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In less than a year since opening in Houston’s East End, a popular destination for Italian fare is rebranding — for the third time. The brother-and-sister team of Angelo and Lucianna “Louie” Emiliani debuted Cafe Louie at 3401 Harrisburg in May 2022. Houstonians came for the crowd-pleasing menu, which included pastries, kolaches, sandwiches and hou...

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Adam Orman and Fiore Tedesco are a couple of friends who, despite hailing from very different Northeast upbringings, found common ground in their love for family, traditions, music and food. Tedesco’s fascination with food began rolling meatballs with his Italian grandmother in her kitchen at age three, moving up to making fresh cheeses and sausage...

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Roma Italian Bistro, 318 S. Ragsdale, opened Wednesday, April 5. The restaurant joined the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, which provided a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Roma’s opening day. “We are so proud to be apart of this community. The support we received today was so amazing and we can’t wait to meet everyone. We couldn’t be more thankful, Go...

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What happens when two guys from a neighborhood in Philadelphia open an Italian Deli? You get  "Abburzzi's and Giunta's" on Route 38 in Mt. Laurel. Ryan Bussell, who's one of my producers, and I set out to see just how good they are. They are incredible! They started us out with their famous homemade, hand-rolled stromboli, which owner Joe Abbruzzi...

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Based on the beauty and simplicity of fresh, seasonal ingredients, and the joys of sharing food with others, Italian food is almost universally known and beloved. Its history can be traced back to the Roman Empire with a cookbook from the first century B.C. Over the centuries, the country's regions have developed their own cuisines, based on the gi...

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Milano’s Italian restaurant is coming to downtown Vicksburg. It will be in the 1300 block of Washington Street across from 10 South and the Key City Brewery. Owner Ylli Makolli (pronounced U-Lee Ma-ko-lee) believes he will be open in about six weeks. Makolli operates restaurants in Louisiana including Milano’s Italian Grill in West Monroe along wit...

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“All’onda” can mean two different things to an Italian. To a surfer child of the Riviera, it evokes the swell of the sea. (Onda means “wave.”) To a northerner, all’onda speaks to the ideal texture of risotto—the individual rice grains should be al dente, yet bound together by a starchy, flavorful magma so creamy that a quick flick of the pot will s...

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Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace is all set to open its first location in Monmouth County next month, on Shrewsbury Avenue in Tinton Falls. “We are very excited about coming to Tinton Falls and Shrewsbury,” said Philip DelPrete, president and chairman of Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace. This will be the company’s third New Jersey location; it has stores i...

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