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"Right now, we can't talk about anything else," my friend, a foreign affairs reporter in Rome, wrote to me. She wasn't talking about politics, but about pasta carbonara. A few minutes after her message, a New York writer friend told me he was being flown to Rome in a hurry to investigate the topic. On 23 March, the Financial Times published an arti...

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G. Esposito & Sons Jersey Pork Store, a butcher shop in Carroll Gardens, is closing after 100 years in business. A sign posted to the Court Street shop’s store states that April 10 is the last day for one of Brooklyn’s oldest butchers. G. Esposito & Sons opened in Carroll Gardens a century ago, originally on Columbia Street, after the founder moved...

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Every autumn in Tuscan wine country, wine grapes become ready for harvest. This season is very busy for this region of Italy, and many like to celebrate the harvest with a traditional delicacy called "schiacciata all'uva," or grape focaccia.  Focaccia is a savory Italian bread that is typically used for sandwiches or a quick snack. But in this reci...

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Lucky you. Soon you'll be able to get Nino's pastries at another spot in Mercer County. Nino's Pastry Shoppe on Quakerbridge Road in Hamilton Township, well known for its Italian pastries, Italian cookies, cakes and other goodies, is expanding. The bakery is opening a second location on Scotch Road in Ewing. It's going to be where the old Italian P...

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A serial restaurateur, Joey Maggiore is embarking on his most personal venture yet: The Sicilian Butcher. A tribute to his late father, the restaurant celebrates his Italian heritage and the foods he would cook for Maggiore as a child. “He gave his life for Italian food and culture,” Maggiore said of his father. In every location of The Sicilian Bu...

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Sales figures of Parmigiano Reggiano PDO in international markets are getting brighter and brighter. With 64,202 tons exported in 2022, the export share increased by two percentage points up to 47 percent. Among destination countries, the best-performing markets last year were Spain (+11.3% with 1,602 tons vs. 1,439 in 2021), the US, which is the f...

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"I intend to go out with a fish in one hand and pasta in another," Tony Vallone once said. His namesake restaurant, Tony's, first opened in Houston in 1965. Over half a century, it grew from a small Italian spot into a fine dining institution. Tony's became a go-to spot for visiting dignitaries and celebrities from across the globe, including sever...

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Let’s address the elephant in the room: The Bay Area has happily entered its fermented-everything era, and miso is everywhere. Case in point, miso has even taken over a corner of the menu that, until recently, seemed to be immune to blazing trends: the high-end pasta dish. In recent months, creative and surprising pasta dishes featuring the popular...

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He received a calling — to the kitchen. As pastor at Williamsburg’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Annunciation Parish, a chaplain to the FDNY and chairman of Emmaus Center, a Catholic arts organization, Jamie Gigantiello is one Monsignor with a whole lot on his plate. And when he’s not feeding his flock spiritually, he’s whipping up a heavenly pasta p...

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And to think that everything started from a bowl. Quas'at, that's what it was called. At least originally, when it was a very simple cake, very different from the opulent dessert we know today. Sheep's milk ricotta and honey, nothing else. A perfectly fitting combination that over the years has evolved to become the symbolic dessert of Sicily, whic...

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