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Even if you enjoy cooking, it’s hard to get excited watching a pot of pasta boil—but after breaking out the Al Dente kitchen timer, you’ll find yourself singing along while stirring your spaghetti. This clever gadget brings a sense of humor to the otherwise mundane kitchen task. Instead of a boring buzzer, Al Dente uses one of four classic Italian...

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The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, is  on a mission to Houston for the launch of CERAweek, the primary annual U.S. energy review, as well as the 8th edition of "Taste of Italy," a fair dedicated exclusively to Italian agribusiness.CERAWeek includes a wide range of meetings and events with the participation of instituti...

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Is it a crime to go to a red sauce Italian joint and fall in love with a salad? If it is, book me, because I can’t get enough of one offered at Caruso’s Grocery, which opened in the Pike & Rose development in December. When my tricolore salad arrives at the table, I stop for a few seconds to take in the prettiness of the assemblage of bright red ra...

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Food has the power to nourish minds and bodies, bring people joy and unite different communities and cultures. Just four years ago, first-generation Italian immigrant Anthony Costella decided he would jar and sell his Nona’s original marinara recipe dating back to the 1800s. "I've always loved to cook, learned it, passed it down from two generation...

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America makes no secret of its deep love affair with Italian food. You can find restaurants in virtually every city in the country slinging red sauce and serving up any and all iterations of Italy's vast regional cuisines. Of course, this is largely attributed to Italian influences who have showcased and popularized the country's rich culinary trad...

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Surprise, surprise! Spaghetti is the most popular pasta in Italy–at least according to a July 2021 poll by the Unione Italiana Food ranking the country’s top ten pasta shapes. Spaghetti nabbing the number one spot will hardly come as a shock; it’s undoubtedly the pasta shape most strongly associated with Italian cuisine. It tops the poll just ahead...

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North Beach’s Il Casaro Pizzeria on Columbus Avenue has been among San Francisco’s go-to favorites for Napolitan-style since opening in 2014. It’s popularity led to a second Il Casaro in the Castro three years later, with the same team also opening the North Beach Roman-style pizzeria Barbaro Pinsera in 2018, and California Fish Market a few blocks...

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Industry-leading charcuterie company Rovagnati announced the launch of the Paolo Rovagnati Black Label Line – a range of quality salumi products – at the Winter Fancy Food Show, which took place in Las Vegas in January. Rovagnati, a proud brand committed to supporting tried-and-true Italian tradition, expands with the debut of the new and luxurious...

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Taralli are a recent culinary obsession of mine. It all began one evening when I received an impromptu invitation for dinner from a friend, who set up a quick aperitivo, too: a glass of white, some parmesan cubes, and cold cuts accompanied by a bowl filled to the brim of taralli. While I had them before, I had never really thought much about them,...

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Did you know that Celtics Head Coach Joe Mazzulla grew up in Rhode Island? You’ve probably heard that once or a thousand times by this point in the season. Zolak and Bertrand like to pick the Johnston native’s brain about peculiar Ocean State traditions on his weekly interview. During Super Bowl week they decided to ask Mazzulla his opinion of the ...

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