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Italy's beaches might look very different this summer, as the travel industry tries to come up with ways to ensure Italians can still go to the coast despite the coronavirus outbreak. Millions head to Italian beaches every summer, and over a month into Italy's Covid-19 lockdown more and more people are wondering whether they'll be able to do the sa...

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You can’t go to Riviera Foods without getting a Diavolo ($6.50). That’s just the food rules, I don’t make them. The sandwich (formerly known as the Will Special, named after the late regular who created it) takes a 9-inch length of crisp-crusted French bread, then fills it with fatty layers of spicy soppressata, hot capocollo, salty prosciutto, cur...

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Charles “Chad” Vilotti and James Liscio, partners at the 400-worker Liscio’s Italian Bakery Inc. in Glassboro, are among the first Philadelphia-area firms to collect cash from a “forgivable” coronavirus economic relief loan through the Small Business Administration. “We like to say that ‘banks are these places that give you umbrellas when it...

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When I order take out, I've been trying to order strictly from local restaurants and to tip handsomely. This pandemic is heartbreaking for so many reasons. But it will be even more devastating if when this is finally all behind us, we can't eat at our favorite local restaurants because they weren't able to stay afloat. When I saw that Patty B's in...

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The Barilla family, which owns the pasta maker of the same name, has donated $500,000 to U.S. non-profit association "The Cure Alliance" to fund research on a COVID-19 therapy based on stem cells, the group said on Monday. The clinical trial for the cure, which is being developed by a group of international scientists led by Italian professor Camil...

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Alessandro Del Piero is one of the most popular Italian soccer players of all-time and one of the most recognizable names in Italian sports and in the soccer world as a whole. For the past couple of years, Del Piero and his wife, Sonia Amoruso, have been running an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles called No. 10, in honour of his jersey number. On...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, is by all accounts the man of the hour. While facing threats to his safety from rightwing elements, he is also being showered with praise and admiration, sometimes uncomfortably, as he became the most recogniz...

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My grandparents were born in Italian villages with no running water or electricity. There were no doctors and no telephones on which to call a doctor if an emergency arose. There were no cars because there were no roads. From our store-going, internet-shopping perspective, their lifestyle was one similar to our daily social distancing—cooking, eati...

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Il Chianti Italian, a restaurant in Henderson, donated and delivered meals to family in need this Easter Sunday. The restaurant's Chef Janeo said they were determined not to let local families go hungry. Staff delivered lunch and dinner, totaling about 20 meals for families in need. It's another sign of our #VegasStrong community that when the goin...

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I have been working in Little Italy for over 25 years now and have seen it grow from an area formerly branded as “Harborview” to the Little Italy it is today. Since the inception of the Business Improvement District in 1996, the Association (a charitable, non-profit corporation) has grown from a group of 17 business and community Board members, wit...

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