A Candid Italian Brings Bocce to Scappoose
by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis It is Saturday night at the Columbus Day Banquet. The Portland Golf Club is overflowing with smiling guests, drinks in hand. Dinner is finished, the panna cotta is on its way, the music and dancing has started. One man still mingles table to table. He greets old friends with a handshake, a good rib poke or a k...
Irresistibly Italian event at Mary Tuttle's – Special Guest Charlie Gitto Jr.
Famed restaurateur, Charlie Gitto, Jr. will be a special guest at Mary Tuttles Floral and Gifts located in Chesterfield, MO, Saturday, October 15th for a book signing promoting a cookbook featuring recipes from The Hill, which is home to the popular Italian restaurant, Charlie Gitto's On the Hill. Mary Tuttle's Floral and Gifts is an upsca...
Restaurant review: Trattoria Sbandati
Spaghetti and meatballs are not Italian food. Ask Juri Sbandati. At Trattoria Sbandati on Bend's west side, you also won't find fettucine Alfredo, chicken Parmigiana or veal Marsala on the carefully considered menu. This is not, after all, a dimly lit Italian café with red-checkered tablecloths and candles fashioned from Chianti bottl...
The new version of Annie's Gourmet Italian Bistro is even more comfortable
Every neighborhood needs a cozy Italian restaurant to call its own, and Green Valley has a handful of favorite haunts where the regulars are loyal and the food is hearty. Annie's Gourmet Italian Bistro, which reopened earlier this year after moving from its location of five years on Horizon Ridge Parkway to a higher-profile retail center just off t...
Italian cycling parts firm gets state aid
Ogden's ambition to be a recreation-industry hub got a boost this week when the Governor's Office of Economic Development board provided an incentive to attract an Italian bicycle-parts manufacturer to the area. Selle Royal, which was founded in Italy in 1956 and made a big move into mountin biking in 2008, will receive a post-performance tax...
Astoria’s Via Vai brings back traditional Italian lunch. Yes, including handmade pasta
Rome native owner and chef Antonio Morichini wants his Italian restaurant in Via Vai to resemble a piece of "Italy in Astoria." The restaurant and wine bar located at 31-09 23rd Ave. has become a neighborhood favorite since it first opened in June 2014, even attracting guests from outside the city. After living abroad in Italy for several...
Italian-American Profiles of Success: Maria Grazia Swan
Originally from Northern Italy—Veneto to be precise—author Maria Grazia Swan came to the United States as an adult. She lived in other European countries as a child, so the only thing that had her concerned was the ocean in between. Oh, and here's a secret she shared —she doesn't know how to swim!Today, Maria has two grown sons and grandsons, who b...
Coming to Ballard Ave: An Italian Restaurant with a Past
To walk down Ballard Ave is to notice that funny old green house. It looks like a home where Laura Ingalls Wilder and family might have hunkered down for a long prairie winter, dropped improbably in a tight-shouldered row of brick and stone storefronts otherwise pulsing with bars and boutiques. The structure is actually two houses fitted t...
Inaugural Italian festival to benefit Catholic Community Services
By Christine Young The Italian-American Civic League and Salt Lake Italian Club will host Festa Italiana Salt Lake City in the downtown area Sept. 19-20. The festival, in its first year, will focus on Italian food and culture. Festa Italiana Salt Lake City is a non-profit Italian festival and "a portion of the proceeds will be do...
Guido’s maintains long history with Chaparral High School
Tucked away in the back corner of a shopping center on Scottsdale Road, sits Guido's Chicago Meats and Deli — a place that also lies in the hearts and stomachs of the Chaparral High School students a few blocks away. For 33 years, the Italian-style restaurant has curbed the hunger of its neighboring students, serving as a local hotspot for...
Un docente calabrese emigrato promuove l'Italia nelle università americane
Da alunno delle elementari di Gioiosa Jonica, in provincia di Reggio Calabria, a docente d'italiano tra i più apprezzati negli Stati Uniti. Giuseppe Tassone insegna nella Seattle University e nella University of Washington, università pubblica fondata nel 1861 a Seattle, nello stato di Washington. È la più grande del Nord-Ovest americano e...
DeNicola’s Italian Restaurant: Serving Family Recipes Since 1978
by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis Opening the door into DeNicola's Italian Restaurant is like opening the door into your grandmother's kitchen. You are welcomed with a smile, invited to sit down, surrounded by loud conversation and laughter, and there are all those wonderful Italian aromas – baking eggplant in sauce and cheese, simmering p...