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Italian Restaurant Sac's Place will host its 23rd annual Abruzzo Pastoral Night and Pig Roast to honor its Italian roots on Thursday, November 4th and Thursday, November 11th at Sac's Place, 35-11 35th Avenue Astoria, NY. Abruzzo is a little-known region in Italy that the Sacramone family used to call home. Its location between the mountains and se...

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The Feast of Little Italy is marking two decades of hearty food and Italian-American entertainment with its return Nov. 5-7 to Abacoa in Jupiter. A bonus: The festival will offer free admission to mark that 20th anniversary as a way of saying thanks for the two decades of support. “As I reflected on the past two decades, my heart is full of gratitu...

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DalMoros Fresh Pasta to Go is a fun quirky food concept born in Venice, Italy. It opened its very first U.S. location on Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg. Various shapes and sizes of pasta, made with a specific Italian flour making the noodles feel lighter, are made fresh every single day in a busy pasta machine right in the streetfront wi...

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Nowadays, pizza in New York is everywhere. It’s become such an integral part of the state that it’s hard to imagine a time when it didn’t exist here. But it really wasn’t all that long ago that the first pizzeria in New York (and for that matter, America) opened up. You can still get pizza from that same restaurant today. Lombardi’s Pizza, the firs...

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In Sicily, when we talk about the products of the earth, besides being unique and sometimes unobtainable in other parts of the world, they also have very particular names and that obviously vary even within Sicily itself.  When it comes to Sicilian vegetables, Sicily does not fear comparisons: for centuries it has been producing veggies with genuin...

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The glut of recent pizzeria news in Southwest Florida supports the theory that pizza may be the circle of life. Most people passionately care about pizza and have deep-seated personal preferences about pizza. New York or Chicago, hand-tossed slices or cracker-thin squares, plain or pineapple, handheld or knife and fork; it’s often best not to broac...

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An Italian café is set to open inside a new high-rise apartment building on the Long Island City waterfront. Santa Chiaro Café will open in December on the ground floor of 52-41 Center Boulevard, a 44-story residential building at Hunters Point South. It will be the first café owned solely by Cristiano Rossi, an Italian immigrant who lives in Willi...

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Michelin-starred chef Mark Ladner is having a full circle moment. Back in the 80s, the Belmont native got his initial taste of the restaurant industry working at Café Fiorella in Harvard Square. After pursuing a culinary degree at Johnson & Wales, he worked at Olives in Charlestown alongside Todd English before deciding to move to New York. Spendin...

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Cardellino, chef/owner Brad Wise’s Italian-American all-day eatery and bakery in Mission Hills, was only open for six weeks last year before the pandemic arrived and shut it down in March 2020. Now, as pandemic restrictions gradually ease, Trust Restaurant Group (TRG) founder Wise has been tinkering with the concept of Cardellino, which has only be...

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Before seeking the best balsamic vinegar, it helps to know exactly what it is—namely, unfermented grape must, aka whole pressed grapes complete with juice, skin, seeds, and stems, and then cooked down and aged. At its finest, it’s a sweet yet sour elixir that can transform a simple arugula salad or ripe strawberry into something transcendent. The h...

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