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Carmela Maria Leone Favorito has seen it all. Born in San Nicola Italy in 1931, the third of eight children, a devastating earthquake caused her family to lose everything right before her birth. For the first year of her life, her family took shelter in a cave. Growing up, Carmela's life was clearly one of hardship, but through it all, Carmela neve...

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A second location of Italian pizza and pasta hit restaurant Serafina will sail into Seaport (11 Fan Pier Boulevard) early this May with waterfront views; a large, breezy patio; and a menu that stretches beyond the pizza and pasta the Back Bay location (237 Newbury Street) is known for. Taking over the former home of Babbo (a restaurant once co-owne...

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The Redstone Pasta Company located in Hampden County in East Longmeadow, recently opened and already has a waitlist for a reservation. That's because the hot spot is offering handmade pasta and wood-fired pizzas that aren't your ordinary fare. "A new Italian place in town definitely worth trying! The pizza was light, the pasta was fresh, and the de...

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Smoked prosciutto, Buffalo mozzarella, gorgonzola, mortadella, Zeppole di San Giuseppe. All are common ingredients at Italian Cafe Gelato – stuffed into sandwiches, placed gingerly on top of pizzas, filling a display case of pastries – and they've traveled from half a world away to end up on plates in Quincy. Cafe Gelato opened in the West of Chest...

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Though postponed twice by the pandemic, the 20th Longmeadow UNICO Food and Wine Tasting will finally take place this coming Saturday, April 23, and club members promise the event will be the best yet. The organization’s largest annual fundraiser is set for 7 to 9 p.m. on Center Court at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. It will feature...

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Sunday, May 1 2022. 18:30 – 23:00 EDT. Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Doors open at 6.30 PM, Dinner start at 7.15 PM. Register. Pasta competition among Italian Student Societies from the Boston area. Vaccination required to attend. It's that time of the year you were all waiting for...Pasta Chall...

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To encourage, support and develop entrepreneurial relationships between Italy and its best innovative realities with the Boston ecosystem. This is the goal at the base of the agreement signed between Entopan Innovation, an incubator/accelerator and open innovation hub based in Catanzaro, and 42N Advisors, B-Corp that aims to support Italian compani...

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In West Springfield, people of all ages are coming together to play the sport of bocce. At the Dante Club in West Springfield, teams are set and the balls are rolling. The group is playing bocce, an Italian ball sport. “We’ve been playing since the 90s here, when we built the indoor bocce court, and we have anywhere between eight and 12 teams,” sai...

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When Marie Durante was just 5 years old, she said she remembers making and rolling traditional anise cookies with her grandmother Santa, a native of Sicily.  "Us kids would sprinkle the sprinkles on and frost," she said with a smile.  Decades later, she and her own daughter Francesca would spend time in their Duxbury kitchen crafting the traditiona...

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Andrea Bocelli has announced a new run of US shows. The legendary Italian tenor will kick off his In Concert Tour on December 1 at San Francisco's Chase Center, before stops in cities including Las Vegas, Boston, and New York, wrapping in Miami on December 18.  Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time on April 11. The trek follows his previous...

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