Staten Island's Garibaldi-Meucci Museum hosting June 22 trip to Magnanini Vineyards
Yeah, yeah, yeah, our borough has the best legit Italian culture in all five boroughs. However, it doesn't hurt to sample off-Island offerings once in a while. On Sunday, June 22, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will host an upstate bus trip to the Magnanini Vineyards in Wallkill, New York. After a stroll on the lush 13-acres of beautiful coun...
Trattoria L'incontro Chef Opening Italian Eatery in Hunters Point
The chef behind acclaimed Italian eatery Trattoria L'incontro will be heading up the kitchen of a new restaurant in Long Island City that's set to open next month.Rocco Sacramone, who opened the Zagat-rated Trattoria L'incontro in 1999, is teaming up with Tommy Demaras — owner of Astoria restaurant and lounge Cavo — to open Maiella on the Long Isla...
Amazon vende online l’Italian food di Eataly
Amazon ha stipulato un accordo commerciale per distribuire online i prodotti alimentari di Eataly a New York. La partership tra il colosso guidato da Jeff Bezos e la catena di patron Farinetti consentirà di rendere più affidabili ed efficienti le consegne nella Grande Mela del cibo italiano e se l'esperimento avrà successo è presumibile che potrebb...
Eat, shop, learn at New York’s giant Italian marketplace called Eataly
'Tis the season to feast! For holiday food shopping and more, head toEataly, a large Italian marketplace in New York City owned in part by famed chef Mario Batali. "It's kind of like a melting pot of energy and discovery," explains General Manager Dan Amatuzzi of the foodie destination. "Eataly is the summation of Italian food and wine under o...
"Benvenuto Brunello": Montalcino presenta le sue eccellenze enologiche a New York e Los Angeles
Appuntamento a New York e Los Angeles con il Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino, che presenterà l'eccellenza enologica nostrana nelle due città americane rispettivamente il 27 ed il 30 gennaio in occasione dell'evento "Benvenuto Brunello. World Experience USA 2014". Una esperienza unica per conoscere e gustare oltre trenta tra le pi...
Ferrara Makes Worlds Largest Cannoli - 12 Feet Long and 348 pounds
Hail To The Chef! Ernest Lepore, co-owner and Executive Chef of Little Italy's world famous Ferrara Café & Bakery, predicted he would create the World's Largest Cannolo and this past Saturday, September 20, 2014, he did it! Weighing in at a record 348 pounds and measuring 12 feet in length, the "Ferrara IL GRANDE CANNOLO was introduced...
Sweet and savory: SCCC’s Chef Rocco Verrigni builds on family Christmas Eve traditions
By Siobhan Connally If you ask Chef Rocco Verrigni, a professor of culinary arts at Schenectady County Community College, to talk about holiday meals, you'll find his tastes are firmly rooted in childhood. "I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a multi-generational Italian home where food was important, but also in a household with a...
Italian Alps-themed Baita is back on Eataly’s rooftop
Summer is over in New York City (although the temperatures suggest otherwise) and Eataly NYC's Flatiron location has once again turned its rooftop beer garden into an Italian Alps-themed restaurant for the winter. The 2.0 version of Baita (pronounced bye-tah), a Piemontese word for small ski lodge in the Italian Alps, opens to the public t...
Gourmet Italian American meals in center of town
With unique twists on upscale Italian/American dishes, the new restaurant Otto Strada on Park Avenue has been bustling with hungry patrons who have heard about it through word of mouth since it opened in November. Located near several schools and parks, the corner restaurant has attracted families, moms' groups, young people, and singles o...
Never out of style: Tony of Italy marks 45 years
Tony Iannacito, better known as Tony of Italy, has been styling hair for more than half a century. Tony of Italy, located at 117 Fourth St., has been in business for 45 years, and is a staple in the community. Iannacito's lifestyle of cutting and styling hair is one he loves, and has loved for the past 52 years. Born in Roccasicura,...
E l'America scoprì il tartufo
di Chiara Zaccherotti Acqua e sali minerali. Sembra quasi impossibile che da una combinazione così semplice di elementi possa nascere un vero e proprio gioiello quale il tartufo. Sotto terra, infatti, in simbiosi con le radici di alberi tipo il pino, il leccio, la quercia o la sughera, avviene il miracolo e il tubero più famoso al mondo pr...
TV's 'Pizza Masters' launch 'Staten Italy' cookbook
Despite Hollywood television stints and daily toils with their multiple pizzerias, cousins Francis Garcia and Sal Basille took time to talk with the Advance about their rise to fame from humble beginnings -- and their favorite pie on S.I. Just as background, the native Staten Islanders have hit the big leagues as far as pizza chefs are concern...