Even though it's been open for quite some time, Eataly Dallas is celebrating its official grand opening on Friday, Nov 12. Located at NorthPark Center, the three-floor culinary playground offers Italian delicacies including fresh pasta, breads, cheese, wine and desserts along with a marketplace sourced from local producers in DFW. This grand openin...
READ MOREFilled pasta is a tradition in Italy, but how many varieties do we have? Tortellini, cappelletti, ravioli. Tortelli, tortelloni and agnolotti… Every region seems to use different names and has different varieties, so let’s make some order in this inextricable forest of culinary deliciousness. A bit of history, first. The Italian tradition to match...
READ MORECCI-NC's 5th Round Table on Italian Technology and Foreign Direct Investment, focusing on Food Science & Technology, took place on October 21, 2021 at the Food Innovation Lab of Kannapolis, NC. Presented by the Honorary Consul of Italy to NC and CCI-NC, with support from the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia, this Round Table event showcas...
READ MOREKeep kosher? Keep reading. It can often be a challenge finding upscale restaurants that accommodate food restrictions. For those that keep kosher, this happens pretty often. A little over a year ago, La Cucina Di Nava opened in Teaneck and is one of the best gourmet “I’d eat here even if I didn't keep kosher” Italian restaurants New Jersey has seen...
READ MOREChef Mathieu Palombino has opened his latest pizza and Italian food venture, Gigi and Mario, in Edgewater. The restaurant serves lovingly crafted pizzas and other Italian delights. With a menu made from scratch and a Neapolitan Acunto brick oven for making pizzas, there’s something for everyone. The 1,300-sq ft Gigi and Mario features an open pizza...
READ MOREA jewel-blue cover sets Sicilia by Ben Tish apart from the rest of the cookbooks on the shelf. It’s a new Italian cookbook, based on a restaurant chefs’ recipes from the island of Sicily. Tish goes so far as to call it his love letter to Sicily, and to Italian food too. And flicking through Sicilia reveals even more saturated photography, all in th...
READ MOREIn a new cookbook, Heart-Shaped Tomatoes, Austin-based photographer Dimitri Staszewski and brand strategist Madelyn Wigle share recipes and personal essays from Staszewski’s 101-year-old Italian grandmother, Elda Cristini. The book is available for preorder. The book contains about 20 home-cooking recipes from Cristini, like lasagne, gnocchi, seafo...
READ MOREAs one might imagine, Italy factors heavily into “Taste: My Life Through Food,” Stanley Tucci’s third book, which was released this month and chronicles his Italian American upbringing and culinary travels. Yet, as The New York Times points out, he finds tastes of Italy throughout the world: in Vancouver, where an Italian restaurant becomes his hom...
READ MOREStreet food has conquered even the beautiful city of Bologna, that through street food enables its visitors to know deeply the most ancient traditions, in addition to the historical and artistic beauties. Bologna’s Street Food has something for everybody, eating well and cheap. It is not a surprise that Bologna is usually referred to as godereccio...
READ MORELocated around the corner from its beloved West Village predecessor, L’Artusi, a neighborhood favorite going on 13 years, is the new casual Italian wine bar and restaurant, b’artusi. Led by executive chef Joe Vigorito (Via Carota)—who also helped see L’Artusi through all of the challenges brought on by the pandemic—b’artusi is an intimate gathering...
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