La Bottega, a high-end Italian market and café from Italy's famed Cipriani family, will make its debut next year at the family's Mr. C Residences in Coconut Grove. Located within the new residential development across the street from Regatta Park, the 5,250-square-foot restaurant and marketplace will offer a selection of imported foods along with h...

Philip M. Mancuso was an institution in his own right, a master cheese maker, raconteur, and water ice wizard who proudly maintained his family’s 81-year-old Italian grocery on East Passyunk Avenue, where he often handed slices of his legendary fresh ricotta to customers with a song. Angelo R. Scuderi led the behind-the-scenes career of a night bak...

A recipe inviting people to add cherry tomatoes to carbonara has caused an outcry, particularly among Italians, after it was published in The New York Times. The newspaper's cooking contributor Kay Chun suggested that tomatoes would “lend a bright tang" to the classic dish, a staple of Italian cuisine. The backlash on social media was instant and s...

In Manhattan, there’s a saying among restaurateurs that “New Yorkers eat with their eyes,” meaning that they are happy when the meal covers the plate, and more. In Sarasota, we have the opportunity to experience just that at Marcello Ristorante Italiano. This inviting, intimate restaurant provides a dining experience unlike any other. It seems as i...

Jonathan Benno is an American chef of the highest pedigree. He trained at the Culinary Institute of America and went on to be mentored by living legends (Thomas Keller, Tom Colicchio, Daniel Boulud, to name just a few) in some of the United States’ most celebrated kitchens (The French Laundry, Per Se, Gramercy Tavern, Daniel, Craft) before moving o...

Eric Mullen was a stranger in a foreign land. He landed in Sicily on a Saturday, headed to a small town far from the English-speaking tourist circuit, and showed up at the bakery on Monday morning without hardly a lick of Italian. As the head baker showed him how it’s done, Mullen just tried to observe and absorb. “He would bring over a bag of flou...

It’s 8:45 a.m. and 28 degrees outside of Amici’s in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Waynesville. The sidewalk has been shoveled, while the roof of the fine Italian restaurant is still covered in a fresh blanket of snow that had fallen the night before.  Sitting at a table in the dining room is Amici’s owner Mary Anne Perrone, going through the books...

Think of Italy and you're likely to think of food first, and all the other beautiful things it offers second. Italian cuisine -- or some version of it -- has colonized the rest of the world so successfully that there are probably uncharted corners of the Amazon rainforest where you can sit down at a red-and-white checkered tablecloth and order up a...

Marino Monferrato is the Maître d'hôtel on Fox's Hell's Kitchen. He has served as the Restaurant Director for the last six seasons and is currently featured on Season 19. Here's everything you need to know about the Italian native. Before Marino joined the cast of Hell's Kitchen, he worked in numerous restaurants as the general manager, restaurant...

The Italian American Chamber of Commerce presents the new True Italian Taste Webinar “Scientific health benefits of the Mediterranean diet”, in collaboration with Assocamerestero and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The event will analyze from a scientific point of view the benefits of the Mediterranean diet and the IG...