In the 19th century, there were more Italian immigrants on the Pacific coast than in New England, and their influence has not waned: today, San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood is a bustling epicenter of Italian-American cuisine.
But Italian and Italian-American are not synonymous, as Chef Valentina Guolo-Migotto noticed when she arrived in 2006 and founded Ca' Momi, a restaurant and vineyard that seeks to provide authentic Italian food to the Bay Area.
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