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Beneath the Kimpton La Peer Hotel, down an echo-filled stairwell, Michael Fiorelli is deeply focused on dinner prep. This subterranean, stainless steel workstation isn’t where the Olivetta chef expected to be before the pandemic started, but he’s more comfortable than ever cooking food like this: coastal Mediterranean cooking with Italian overtones...

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Anthony Lazzaro, a longtime USC administrator who guided the rapid expansion of the university’s campus and helped make USC central to the 1984 Olympics, has died at his home in Palos Verdes Estates. Lazzaro died Thursday of natural causes, his family members said. He was 100. During his 42-year tenure with USC — first as an assistant business mana...

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The pizza boom in Los Angeles seems to have no end. Over the past few years, pizza trends like Neapolitan, Detroit, Sicilian, and more have swept across the city, raising LA’s profile to one of the best pizza stops in the country. One of the more recent trends in the city is Roman-style pizza, which has two variations. There’s tonda, which is a rou...

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Padova, Italy-born chef Paola Da Re and her family have accomplished a lot with Pasta Sisters since 2015. They started by offering mix-and-match, hand-made pastas and sauces from a tiny café in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. They expanded to a larger, higher profile space in the Helms Bakery complex, a patio-centric location tha...

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Different chefs feel comfortable in different environments. While many prefer the intimacy of a small kitchen, from food trucks to hole-in-the-wall local haunts, Nathaniel Marcus, the senior sous-chef at the combo Ritz-Carlton-JW Marriott, prefers the massive corporate space a hotel kitchen provides.  Talking about Savoca, the hotel’s centerpiece I...

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With an exceptional birthday comes an exceptional location. As Gucci is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, six years after the Cruise show in New York, the Italian brand is once again heading to the United States, more specifically to Los Angeles, for its next collection. This is a symbolic choice since Alessandro Michele, creative direct...

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When he cooks for Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, he prepares the dish she likes best, spaghetti with fresh tomatoes and basil, while to Vin Diesel he serves classic bruschetta, of which the Fast & Furious actor is particularly fond. Chef Arturo Avallone arrived in Los Angeles with a dream that, with determination, talent and passion for g...

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It is with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to ex-Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles, Antonio Verde. He served our country proudly and passionately in Tokyo, Moscow, Strasbourg, Sidney, Los Angeles and Cairo. He touched many lives and will be missed. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends around the world! Arrivederci C...

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What is Italian American cuisine? How do we define traditional dishes transformed by Italian immigrants? Is the food we eat today the same as our mothers and grandmothers prepared? Italian American food traditions are often misunderstood and defined only in comparison to the “true” Italian canon. In reality, Italian American food is its own unique...

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universally known as the world capital of cinema, Los Angeles is actually at the forefront of innovation and research in the aeronautics, aerospace and biomedical fields, too. In recent years, the Southern Californian city has, in fact, been able to merge digital innovation and marketing, giving life to a new technological hub, better known as “Sil...

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