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Jersey Shore foodies, rejoice: Toms River’s newest restaurant opened its doors last month, touting authentic modern Italian cuisine. Led by New Jersey-based chef Francesco Barbarossa, L’Osteria (1922 Hooper Ave, Unit 1) features rotating seasonal menus of pastas, meats and desserts, with holiday menus now available. A selection of complimentary...

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When it comes to Italian food, red sauce continues to hold strong. There seems to be no stopping Major Food Group’s insistence that there be a chicken parm in every port, and the biggest names are even ensuring that the red-sauce joint is jarred and sold at the grocery store. But amid that scene, a new trend emerged in 2022, attempting to evoke mor...

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A longtime destination for calzones, cannolis and calamari marinara is continuing to dish out Italian favorites under a new name in Northampton County. Amore Pizzeria, a family-run eatery offering made-from-scratch Italian cuisine, opened Nov. 14 at 3502 Greenway St. in Palmer Township. The BYOB, full-service restaurant replaces Jimena's Pizza & Re...

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Ligurian food and wine are unique: They derive from a spectacular region’s unique geography, history, culture, and traditions. This post describes the region of Liguria, Italy, its cuisine, and lists a sampling of popular Ligurian foods, dishes and wines. If this post whets your appetite and you can’t wait until your next trip to Italy, several lin...

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Many Italian-Americans today trace their heritage back to the Italian immigrants who arrived on Ellis Island back in the late 1800s. Along with their luggage, they brought their language, traditions, and food. These days, Italian food is so ubiquitous in American culture that some countries may recognize pizza and, to a lesser extent, spaghetti as...

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Those who have lived in New York for many years have one name etched in their memories. It is “Il Monello,” an Italian restaurant that opened in 1974 and has remained for more than three decades a symbol of Italian-American cuisine in the United States. Today, after being closed for a long time, Il Monello has reopened its doors to the public at 33...

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Italian pasta maker Barilla said on Friday it had entered an agreement to acquire Back to Nature food brand from B&G Foods (BGS.N) to grow in the U.S. bakery market. "The acquisition of Back to Nature is consistent with Barilla's long-term strategy to build a strong multi-brand bakery platform in the United States", the Italian group said in a stat...

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The holidays are coming, and while people across the United States may end up doing something similar – exchanging gifts, toasting the season with eggnog and eating too much food – there’s no doubt that different parts of the county have different traditions when it comes to Christmas. And in New Jersey, it’s all about the seven fishes, a study cla...

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Did you know that many of our modern holiday traditions have ancient Roman roots? The month of December, itself, is named after the 10th month of the Roman calendar, Decem.    Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival in honor of the god Saturn held on December 17 of the Justinian calendar and later expanded with festivities through December 23. The...

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The art of preserving pork was firmly established in the Tuscany region by the Middle Ages. This can be seen from the number of laws governing the slaughter of pigs and the preservation of pork already in place at the time of Charlemagne. Prosciutto Toscano comes from an old tradition of Tuscan farmers, who would slaughter a pig fattened for a year...

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