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by Marybeth Bizjak   "Farm to fork" is being replaced by a new buzz phrase: proof of concept. It means that a restaurant is successful and can be replicated in other places. In other words, it's scalable, another business-school buzzword familiar to anyone who watches TV's "Shark Tank."   It's no longer enough to dream of opening a si...

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Sunday, April 19 • 2:00 pm • Admission $10@ The Italian Center, Carmichael Join the Italian Cultural Society's Travel Director, Patrizia Cinquini Cerruti, for this special seminar designed to give travelers to Italy strategies and practical ideas to make an Italian dream vacation a reality. Patrizia is a classroom instructor who has taug...

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by Allen Pierleoni   Sure, there's plenty of good pizza in restaurants around town, but lovers of Italian cuisine can go beyond that staple and into more interesting fare at Festa Italiana. Heap your plates with Italian sausage and meatballs, pasta, chicken Parmesan, calamari, cannoli, gelato and much more.   The festival of all-thing...

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by Mark Glover Sacramento boasts of its farm-to-fork reputation, but an Italian delegation visiting the city on Monday hopes that residents also will be receptive to a taste of Tuscany. About a dozen members of a trade and business delegation from the city of Lucca in Italy's famed Tuscany region showed off their wares Monday morning at Adamo...

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by Debbie Arrington   Exit Trick Pony, enter Piccola Citta. But the artisan pizza is expected to stick around. The midtown Sacramento neighborhood restaurant at the corner of 21st and S streets is about to get another makeover, according to operators Matt Chong and Chris Jarosz. On Saturday, the restaurateurs announced on Facebook that...

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The wing position for the Kings this season has underachieved and there isn't much debate about it. After signing Marco Belinelli in free agency, it was apparent that the Kings were making the right moves necessary to fill the void of a shooting wing.   With the collection of Rudy Gay, Ben McLemore, Omri Casspi and Caron Butler, it seemed th...

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By Ann Martin Rolke   Sacramento has needed a casual but high-quality Italian restaurant for a long time. The kind you find in North Beach in San Francisco, a staple for that regular pasta fix. Turns out that Adamo's Kitchen quietly filled that niche when it opened in July 2014. John Adamo and his family own the building that also house...

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The Vallejo lodges of the Order Sons of Italy in America on Nov. 6 presented the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center with a donation of $8,734 during a ceremony held in the UC Davis MIND Institute auditorium. The donation, from the Virgilio Lodge Number 1586 and the Beatrice Portinari Lodge Number 1626, brings the organization's donations to UC Dav...

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The festival includes an Italian design installation, Fiat test drives on Thursday evening, a fashion show showcasing Italian bicycles on Friday. The "Mangia Bevi Mercato" features Italian food, wine, and beer tastings including Galbani cheeses, Baci chocolates, Peroni beer and various Italian wines, as well as locally-made products in the Italian...

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by Nikko Villanueva   It seems like veteran forward Rudy Gay is not the only player from the Sacramento Kings that teams are inquiring about with the trade deadline nearing, as experienced shooter Marco Belinelli is also drawing interests.   According to James Ham of CSN Bay Area, sources have confirmed with CSN California that team...

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