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A new wood-burning pizzeria has opened in Maywood. Amici's Italian Restaurant offers "a taste of Naples," its website says. The pizzeria is located at 28 West Pleasant Ave., and offers pizza (including specialty pies), pasta, chicken, wraps, calzones, cold sandwiches and more. Amici's is open for dine-in, pick-up or delivery. Delivery is available...

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CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper and Chef Anthony Bourdain would often cross paths to sample foods both familiar and exotic in locales near and far. In this segment (which re-aired on Thanksgiving), Bourdain stopped by Cooper’s kitchen to cook up Sunday gravy, as the late chef — born and raised in Jersey — called it. (Of course, many New York Italians ac...

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There was a time, in the last few years, when finding a seat to eat authentic Italian pizza or stopping for gelato required days of planning and scheduling. Because, across all the Bay Area, from Marin to the South Bay, from San Francisco to Oakland and Alameda, Italian businesses that are successful and well known have grown in number. Customers j...

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Compliments to NIAF Member Armand Buzzelli for his latest children’s book, Rosie’s Red Sauce, promotes the values of healthy home cooking and family traditions, and serves as a model for families that want to plant their own gardens and make time to cook together. Rosie and her Grandpa share a favorite ritual of walking to the local market to buy t...

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Inside the recently restored 1804 New Hampshire National Bank building in Market Square, one of the original vaults has been transformed into a wine room, abutted by humidity and temperature-controlled dry aging cabinets containing premium cuts of sirloin, long-bone ribeye and pork loin.  The light-washed brick walls now have hand-painted murals in...

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There are plenty of opportunities to learn about Italian cuisine both in Italy and abroad, but no foodie should pass up the chance to take a class at Casa Artusi in Emilia Romagna, a region renowned for its culinary prowess. (For many, that would be online now, in-person when travel resumes, although the school is conducting socially-distanced clas...

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Carol Tolosko created Centi­fonti’s restaurant as a nod to her great grandfather Cosmo Centifonti who immigrated with his wife Carmela, in the late 1800s from Abruzzi, Italy to Burlington, New Jersey. Cosmo started his “One Stop Shop” — a delicatessen, with an ice cream parlor, candy store, smoking lounge and a bar. Tolosko wished to emulate the co...

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Every evening at 8pm and 8.15pm, two ferries leave the port of Naples and cut their way across the inky Tyrrhenian Sea to Palermo. The one that leaves second arrives first, at 6.45am, while the other docks at 7.30am, or thereabouts. We are always late booking travel for our annual summer trip to my partner’s hometown in Sicily, so take whatever we...

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Join us on December 14, 2020 for our third True Italian Taste Master Class “Boot” Camp. During this Master Class, participants will be led on a guided exploration of the flavors of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region by a panel of expert speakers including Francesco Lupo (prosciutto specialist, consultant to the Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma, and foo...

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Executive Chef Pasquale Martinelli has experienced significant growth in his business since the pandemic started. He is the owner and founder of Alloro, a private dining catering company based out of Rockaway Beach in New York, serving mainly the tri-state area. Chef Martinelli – born and raised in Puglia – is a true ambassador of Apulian cuisine i...

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