Italian Heritage Lives On Through Bocce Tournament to Benefit Peppertown Park Renewal Project in Berkeley Heights
The first annual Peppertown Park Bocce Tournament and Festival kicked off the fundraising efforts to benefit the Peppertown Park Renewal Project on Saturday at the park, raising $1,450. The tournament was the perfect start to summer with a "Little Italy" festival flavor. Berkeley Heights local eateries were showcased serving their meatball, sausage...
Adriana Trigiani to discuss her new novel over brunch in Tenafly
Adriana Trigiani thinks her new novel, a thick, 500-page epic that bounces around different continents and through a sprawling extended family, is her best work. That's saying something, since the author has already penned 16 bestselling novels, including "The Shoemaker's Wife" and the "Big Stone Gap" series. Fans of Trigiani’s can decide for thems...
Save the Dates: Holy Family Roman Catholic Church Italian Festival returns to Nutley in September
Holy Family Roman Catholic Church on Brookline Avenue will hold their 26th Annual Italian Festival from Thursday September 21 through Sunday September 24 in the church parking lot. The annual event includes food, music, games, and rides.
Manufacturing Plant Locates in Weirton
An Italian manufacturing company that supports the natural gas industry is setting up shop in the Northern Panhandle. The Italian-based company Pietro Fiorentini broke ground in a ceremony this week to announce the purchase and development of a 26-acre plot in Weirton. Fiorentini has been operating an office in West Virginia since 2013, but the Wei...
Bethlehem's Italian Festival: A pizza (and prosecco) party
Enjoy Italian food and wine — from meatballs and moscato to cannolis and chianti — at the second annual Bethlehem Italian Festival, noon-8 p.m. Saturday on Main Street and in the Sun Inn Courtyard in downtown Bethlehem. The free event, hosted by the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce, features a wine trail ($30, advance; $35, day of festival), which inc...
At members-only Palizzi Social Club, South Philly's Italian American food history thrives again
Beyond the red neon sign at the entrance to this innocuous rowhouse on South 12th Street., there’s a little vestibule and a door with no handle. We press the antique buzzer, and a narrow window slides open to reveal doorman Guido Martelli’s friendly face: “Membership card, please.” The reedy tunes of a live accordion filter past him through the op...
Thousands gather for annual Feast of St. Anthony in Little Italy
As Frank Cipolloni led dozens of parishioners from St. Leo the Great Church through the streets of Baltimore's Little Italy, he carried the memory of his father with him. Cipolloni's father, who died in 2002, had participated in the church's annual Feast of St. Anthony celebration for about 50 years. Cipolloni hopes his four grandsons will too take...
Matthew A. DiPaula
Matthew A. DiPaula of Mount Laurel passed suddenly Saturday, June 10, 2017, due to an aneurysm, and was rushed to Virtua Marlton. While his loving family was holding his hands, our Lord and Savior then gently took hold of his hands to bring him home. He was 87. My father was born Sept. 10, 1929, to Italian immigrant parents, Giuseppe DiPaolo (Nusco...
Capo Deli Hopes To Be Shaw's New Little Italy
An old-school deli in one of D.C.'s hippest neighborhoods? Fuggedaboudit. For all its restaurants, D.C. has a particular dearth of traditional Italian delis, with their black-and-white flooring, ceiling-hung laminated signs listing the almost-too-many sandwich options, and shiny glass display cases of goodies ready to be scooped into to-go containe...
Morano Gelato Brings Authentic Italian Dessert to Westfield
Unless you’ve traveled out to Italy in your lifetime, it would be tough to find a gelateria as authentic as Morano Gelato in Westfield. This local business is brand new to the Garden State and offers traditional Sicilian-style gelato made from scratch every morning on premises. The gelateria operates seven days a week, bringing guests a variety of...
There’s a New Italian Deli in Shaw, and It’s Legit
Salvatore Falcone is serious about his subs. The Queens native and his brother left New York, where their father owned a deli, to open their own Italian sandwich shop and market in Boca, Florida over three decades ago. Now “Sal” is back in the Mid-Atlantic (at least part time) for a similar venture in Shaw: Capo Deli.v Falcone’s DC connection is th...
Pazzo, in Upper St. Clair, offers Italian-American favorites
In a city already packed with classic Italian-American restaurants, old and new, we always wonder that more continue to open. There are surely unplumbed depths to the many regional cuisines of Italy, but what more remains to be said in the language of red sauce? Perhaps it’s the appeal of the tried and true. A menu of pizza, lasagna and fettuccine...