To protect and enhance Bolognese cuisine in the world as a unique heritage, for the contents it expresses directly, for the close relationships it presents with the history of the territory, with the social, cultural and entrepreneurial fabric and for the value of the agri-food sector on which it is regge, the Metropolitan City of Bologna launches...

Congratulations to NIAF Member Michele Di Pietro for her new cookbook, SOUPified: Soups Inspired by Your Favorite Dishes – 31 Innovative Recipes That Ditch the Dish and Embrace the Bowl. Di Pietro is an entrepreneur, chef, culinary consultant, food writer, blogger, and creator of Mangia With Michele, the expression of her lifelong passion for Itali...

An Oklahoma restaurant that has brought a unique twist to traditional pasta dishes has now opened its second location inside Parlor. Bad Nonna’s original location opened this past spring in Midwest City, but it is now expanding to Parlor. “We wanted to expand our exposure and show people some of the other stuff we can really do,” said Paden Weather...

The much-anticipated debut of New York City Italian restaurant Carbone, which boasts a Michelin star pedigree, won’t be happening in 2020 as expected. According to the Dallas Morning News, the restaurant was originally expected to open its doors in the Dallas Design District on December 1, but that timeline has officially been pushed back to April...

New York City pizza cognoscenti know that getting a table at Song'E Napule in Greenwich Village is not easy. The place is teeny. The lines are often long. And reservations, until recently, were not offered. But many New Yorkers put up with the wait, the tight space, the noise. Pizza this good is worth a bit of inconvenience. Soon North Jersey pizza...

On a late summer evening in the Sicilian seaside village of San Vito Lo Capo, Anna Graziano plumps up cushions in a corner of her family’s restaurant, Tha’am, meaning “couscous” in Algerian dialect. She lays down pale-blue, macrame-style knotted tablecloths as they prepare to open up to evening diners. “Everything needs to be perfect for our guests...

Together they’ve got more than 200 years of history on either side of the Bohemian Highway in the tiny west county town of Occidental. Naturally, then, neither Negri’s nor the Union Hotel is going to let a global pandemic bring them down. The two iconic restaurants, which sit across the street from each other in the heart of the popular tourist tow...

After 10 years of earning his chops in New York City, chef Matthew Phelan has returned home to open his own restaurant. Phelan has opened Novella Osteria, a rustic Italian restaurant, at 170 W. Olentangy St. in Powell. “I want to be a neighborhood restaurant,” said Phelan, who grew up in Dublin. “I want to be completely genuine. The food speaks for...

A new wood-burning pizzeria has opened in Maywood. Amici's Italian Restaurant offers "a taste of Naples," its website says. The pizzeria is located at 28 West Pleasant Ave., and offers pizza (including specialty pies), pasta, chicken, wraps, calzones, cold sandwiches and more. Amici's is open for dine-in, pick-up or delivery. Delivery is available...

CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper and Chef Anthony Bourdain would often cross paths to sample foods both familiar and exotic in locales near and far. In this segment (which re-aired on Thanksgiving), Bourdain stopped by Cooper’s kitchen to cook up Sunday gravy, as the late chef — born and raised in Jersey — called it. (Of course, many New York Italians ac...