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Manhattan’s Little Italy isn’t quite as “Italy” as it once was. For a real NYC-Italian neighborhood experience, the only “Little Italy” left is in the Bronx—Arthur Avenue, to be specific. Or, to be even more specific, try the Arthur Avenue Retail Market, sitting in front of a big, square slice of Cafe al Mercato’s Sicilian-style pizza. Tucked into...

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When Grana opens next to the Sprouts on Piedmont Road in January, it will serve as an ode to owner/chef Pat Pascarella’s childhood in Connecticut and his Southern Italian heritage. With wood-fired pizzas, meats, and vegetables, plus house-made pasta, a meatball tasting, and build-your-own cannoli, Grana is designed to feel like a party “no matter w...

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The 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.,...

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Sometimes long-distance relationships work quite well. For Rosalie, the restaurant in Houston’s new C. Baldwin Hotel, owner Brookfield Properties tapped Philadelphia design firm Rohe Creative, led by Kate Rohrer, to bring San Francisco–based chef Chris Cosentino’s Italian dining concept to life. What resulted is a design Rohrer describes as “the ma...

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La Bella Italia, quella che rischiamo di perdere per sempre schiavi di memorie vacue e semiparalizzate da tecnologie sempre più invasive e invalidanti, quella che non compare nei libri di geografia, quella nascosta tra le montagne, quella coraggiosa che resiste al gelo, dove di inverno si arriva facilmente a meno 10, quella dei silenzi impalpabili....

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When it comes to passionate love and how to hone physical attraction, Italians are said to be masters. They have the flirting skills, the charm and know-how of Latin lovers and femme fatales. So it’s no surprise that they’ve also concocted a potent, innuendo-inducing food to help boost the chemistry of encounters and enhance the thrill of sensual n...

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As the countryside prepares to roll out of the fall and head into the winter, saffron blooms in Tuscany – the promise of a precious touch used in applications as diverse as cooking and art, medicine and fabric dying. Over the centuries, San Gimignano established its role as the center for the cultivation of this spice, with records dating as far ba...

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Gennaro’s Trattoria is an Italian villa perched among the rolling hills north of San Antonio in the placid community of Startzville by Canyon Lake. And on a Friday night, it’s packed with cars, buzzing with families drawn by solid Italian cooking at reasonable prices. The waiters are dressed in black and white, formal but not too formal. The murale...

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In collaboration with the Italian Language Program in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Chicago Italian Appreciation Organization (CIAO), UChicago’s Italian culture RSO, swept the competition for a win in Duello ai Fornelli, an annual cooking competition among various Chicago universities.  Organized by the Italian internatio...

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L’export agroalimentare cresce tre volte la media dell’industria manifatturiera. È il commento del coordinatore di Filiera Italia, Luigi Scordamaglia ai dati Istat che vedono le esportazioni del settore agroalimentare nei primi 9 mesi dell’anno mettere a segno un +7% rispetto allo stesso periodo dello scorso anno. «Al di là degli Usa – ha spiegato...

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