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After returning home from the kitchens of New York determined to open his own restaurant, Tampa native Bryce Bonsack traveled to Italy’s Piedmont region to do some soul searching. But Bonsack was on another mission, too. If he wanted his place to focus on pasta, which he mastered while leading pasta production and cooking pasta courses as a sous ch...

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L.A. has its fair share of regional Italian restaurants that craft artful plates of pasta and delicacies year-round. But when it comes to Italian-American restaurants—the kind of place where the meatball’s the size of your fist and that oregano-heavy tomato sauce has been simmering all day—these days, we’re in shorter supply. Thankfully, red sauce...

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You know the name: Incorvaia. And you know that this name is synonymous with home-style, made-from-scratch, classic Italian-American cuisine.  But do you know the new restaurant, Keith and Chris Incorvaia’s Bene Italiano, which opened in mid-June? “Two brothers, one vision” is the motto you’ll see as you walk in the door. And the two brothers in th...

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The owner of a defunct downtown restaurant that focused on specialty diets plans to open an Italian restaurant at the same location early next month. Pomodoro—Italian for “tomato”—will open at 15 E. Maryland St., which until June was occupied by Nook, a restaurant that served food catering to diners who were on the paleo, Whole 30 or keto diets. Th...

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Strictly speaking, people have been eating pizza for centuries. Flat and flavoured breads appear all over our culinary history from Greek pitta and Mediterranean focaccias to Indian naan bread and the Chinese 'bing'. But where does the pizza we know and love today really originate? Find out in our brief history of pizza... It all began in Naples......

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Living in Connecticut it is often easy to take for granted how we have the best Italian restaurants this side of Italy. Give thanks to the Italian forebears who immigrated here generations back. A while back I was in Rome, visiting friends, shopping and, of course, eating. I forget the name of the place but it was a very famous pizzeria. Not a tour...

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Nick Terzella got into the food truck business at the right time in the greater Washington, D.C. area. When he launched his Bada Bing food truck in 2010, mobile kitchens were just becoming popular. The market wasn't yet saturated, and regulations were fairly easy. But Terzella's success wasn't all circumstantial. A professionally trained chef drive...

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With Italian restaurants, you learn as you eat, starting with the name, which could be a family name, a place, a restaurant item or a menu description. Let’s review some family names such as: Maestoso or Cesarina, places like Firenze or Positano and a menu or equipment item like Dolce Pano Vino or Il Fornaio. Then there is the menu selection which...

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An Italian meat processing company is making its move into the American market with a roughly 64,000-square-foot production and wholesale distribution facility in Vineland, a city with historic connections to “the old country.” Rovagnati USA intends to expand the facility to about 500,000 square feet over approximately the next five years, accordin...

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Cresce l’export del pomodoro italiano, in particolare verso i mercati di Usa e Asia. Giovanni De Angelis, direttore generale di Anicav, anticipando in esclusiva per ItaliaOggi il cuore nevralgico del Tomato Day, in programma il 24 ottobre al Cibustec di Pa, annuncia che il trend di crescita dell’export made in Italy in Usa e in Asia (sfiorato il +5...

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