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The web portal TasteAtlas, a digital gastronomic encyclopedia that catalogs traditional dishes, local food and wine products, and restaurants around the world, has these days published its ranking of the world's most popular cheeses. The ranking is based on votes cast by portal users who have tested these products. And out of 100 cheeses, Italy not...

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Virtually every major American city has its own Italian neighborhood. Some of the most well-known, such as Manhattan's Little Italy, Boston's North End, and Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, lie on the East Coast. San Francisco has North Beach, while farther inland, Chicago has University Village, per AFAR. Missouri, however, is special. It...

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The spring semester has arrived, bringing not only a fresh start with new classes and opportunities, but also a fresh pop-up restaurant inside Perkins Student Center. Throughout February, Local Restaurant Row will feature La Casa Pasta, a traditional Italian restaurant that has been serving the Newark community since 1978. Formerly occupied by Olé...

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What is Salsiccia?Salsiccia is a type of Italian sausage made from ground or chopped pork, beef, veal, and/or other meats blended with spices such as garlic, salt, pepper, fennel seed, nutmeg and/or other ingredients. The mixture is then encased in either an edible natural casing or stuffed into a synthetic sausage casing. Salsiccia pronunciationIt...

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Export sales in value and volume of Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano grew double-digit in the first quarter of 2022 and show a positive trend in the following three months as well, posting +7% in value and + 3.8% in volume.  Lombardy’s GI cheeses in 2021, according to the Ismea-Qualivita Report, have a regional impact of 1,401 million euros and...

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Named for the woman who has had a hand in most of the recipes on the menu, Caterina’s Ristorante, 9104 W. Oklahoma Ave., has been a staple of the local dining scene since 1982. It’s always been a family restaurant, and since 2005 Tony Ingrilli has run the restaurant founded by his parents.  His first job at age 9 was washing dishes, and in the near...

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You don’t have to travel to Italy to enjoy fresh pasta. One of the best Italian restaurants in Texas, Zanti Cucina Italiana makes its pasta (and most everything else on the menu) entirely from scratch. The taste is truly out of this world, and you’ll find yourself coming back time and again to savor the authentic flavors. With locations in The Wood...

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Ask anyone where to find a mindblowing cannoli, and they’ll tell you Venice. Not Venice, Italy, but Venice, Florida, where Michael “Wheels” Parise runs Parise’s Original Coffee and Cannoli Bar, a mobile food trailer serving up life-changing cannolis and coffee. Parise, now 57, grew up in Florida, where he worked in restaurants but dreamed of becomi...

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Although I was born and raised in the city of New York, I am embarrassed to admit that I had never partaken in the offerings of Lombardi’s — the first pizzeria in the United States — until last year when I returned to New York and that oversight was finally corrected. Lombardi’s: The First Pizzeria In the United StatesTo be honest, I am a pizza sno...

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What do you do if your friend’s restaurant is destroyed in an earthquake? This question faced restaurateur, Riccardo Longo when the original Gran Caffe L’Aquila, owned by his friend Chef Stephano Biasini, was damaged in the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. “So at that time we talked about it, and he realized that it would take probably 20 years to rebuild...

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