Bertucci’s, the New England restaurant brand, plans to open a Bertucci’s Pronto offshoot this spring in the Boston Government Center, the company said Monday. Bertucci’s, owned by Earl Enterprises, said the Pronto location will be designed to offer an expedited, take-out-friendly dining experience “without sacrificing the quality and taste Bertucci...
READ MOREPaul Posti may not be a household name but his decorated career as a war hero and then later chef makes him worthy of being so. In 2023, close friend George Mather of Raynham honored the former World War II B-17 Flying Fortress tail gunner by writing and publishing the memoir “Posti: War Hero, Hollywood Insider, Chef to Celebrities, and Redemption....
READ MOREThe Consulate General of Italy in Boston celebrated the culmination of the 8-day Festival of Italian Creativity at a Gala dinner on November 22 at the SoWa Power Station. The event, organized with the support of the October Italian American Heritage Month Committee of Massachusetts, commended the vibrant legacy of Boston’s Italian American communit...
READ MOREThe Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking. It’s also a result of Italian cooks who successfully resisted do-gooders trying to Americanize their food habits. An Italian Thanksgiving in the Italian cities like Waterbury, Conn., or Providence, R.I., or Revere, Mass.,...
READ MOREIt's hard to get more "Boston" than Tommy Guarino. Millions of people have watched the East Boston native and his childhood best friend, Chad McDonough — better known as "Prosciutto Papi" — do their thing on Instagram and TikTok. It's admittedly spicy content, but it's steeped in the town they love. "There's a lot of people who say they're from Bos...
READ MOREThe Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by serial North End restaurant owner Frank DePasquale to add a second floor to the vacant strip of storefronts on Cross Street between Hanover and Salem street so he can open a series of businesses keyed to Italian culture - including a cooking school to be run with an existing culinary institute in I...
READ MOREOn January 15, 1919, Boston’s North End — a neighborhood rich in Italian American heritage — was the site of a catastrophe that would become infamous in history: the Great Molasses Flood. A massive steel tank containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, sending a 25-foot wave of the sticky substance through the streets at speeds up to 35 miles...
READ MORENovember 2024 Welcome to Boston, Capital of Italian Creativity in the World for 2024
READ MOREAmong the most fascinating American cities to host and represent the relationship between Italy and the United States, certainly Boston, Massachusetts, New England is very important. Here past and future, tradition and innovation meet, and Italian creativity is well represented by many researchers and innovators. This year Boston has one more reaso...
READ MOREWith a dinner hosted by the Ambassador of Italy to the US, Mariangela Zappia, the series of over fifty events organized by Italy’s diplomatic-consular network, the Italian Cultural Institutes, and Italian Trade Agency offices in the United States began to celebrate the ninth annual Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, themed “Mediterranean Diet an...
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