Down the street from Wake Forest's campus on Reynolda Road, Karen Dioli serves delicious Italian cuisine paired with a warm smile, making Dioli's Italian Market a favorite restaurant for students. In 1999, Dioli and her husband, Roger, wanted to have more children and settle down. Based on a family friend's glowing review of Winston-S...
READ MOREAnche in North Carolina esiste una "piccola" Little Italy. Il suo nome è Valdese ed è stata fondata nel 1893 da un gruppo di valdesi arrivati nelle Blue Ridge Mountains dalle valli piemontesi, in particolare dalla Val Pellice. In seguito all'editto di emancipazione emanato da Carlo Alberto nel 1848, le comunità valdesi ebbero la necessità di cerca...
READ MORECHARLOTTE, March 2, 2013 – When Nada Vergili (www.nadasitaly.com) left her home in Florence, Italy she had no idea what an entrepreneur was, much less that she would soon become one.It began simply enough. Amore brought Vergili to the United States for the second time in her life. In the mid-80s she lived in Orlando, Florida for six years during wh...
READ MORENutkao USA, Inc. will invest more than $17 million to locate its nut butter manufacturing operation in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The company plans to create 100 new jobs during the next five years in Nash County. The Italian-based company is an international producer of nut-based spreads, creams, and fillings. The company produces hazel...
READ MOREHello my name is Paul Biram and I work for a company called Volt Workforce Solutions, a staffing agency with offices all across the US and Canada. The reason I am getting in contact with your groupis that my company is trying to fill a position in the Redmond area that requires a strong command of the Italian language and culture and I had hoped th...
READ MOREThe first time I ate at The Boot, the very first thing I ordered was the fried mozzarella. Yeah, I know what you're thinking: Seriously? Mozzarella sticks? Any foodie worth his Maldon salt knows they're on a restaurant menu for one of two reasons – to soak up booze or to keep the kids happy while the grownups eat real food. And he calls himsel...
READ MORE"Alto" delivered with humor, panache and great heart at its North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (NCGLFF) debut at the Carolina Theatre. It's easy to see why the film by writer and director Mikki del Monico, has, so far, garnered five film festival awards, including the NCGLFF Jury Award for Best Women's Feature. At first, the...
READ MOREWhat's been a bit of a revolving door of pizza is getting a solid pie candidate. Andy Favilla, co-owner of Favilla's New York Pizza, and his cousin Sal Ferrara, will open a sister restaurant to Favilla's West Asheville pizzeria in early April. And, according to Favilla, he could have more restaurants on the way. The new eatery, Favilla's...
READ MOREby Greg Cox North Raleigh has been the beneficiary of the Barresi family's hospitality since a young Vincenzo Barresi opened Vincent's in 1990, giving it the same name as the restaurant his grandfather had opened in 1929 in New York's Little Italy. Barresi's father, familiarly called "Pop," has long been known for handing out cookies to ch...
READ MOREBy Elizabeth Shestak In coming up with a name for their newest venture, Matt Kelly and Josh DeCarolis of Mateo Bar de Tapas tossed around many monikers before they knew they hit the right one. "Talking, coming up with a name – that's how you come up with its true identity," Matt says. Mothers & Sons, an Italian trattoria,...
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