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Looking for that cozy corner cafe to indulge in some artisinal gelato while sipping a locally brewed cappuccino this holiday season? Dolci Gelati has just what you need, nestled in the heart of Old Town Alexandria. Open less than a month, Old Town's Dolci Gelati cafe serves seasonal flavors to get your holiday spirit soaring with Pumpkin Spice...

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Mike and Elynn Malone first tried Rita's Italian Ice last year when they were visiting their daughter, who's attending college in Wichita, Kansas.   The Crete couple were so taken with the company, which sells treats ranging from snow cones to frozen custard, that they decided to become franchisees and bring it to Nebraska.   Read mor...

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Coppa Magica Gelato Cafe owners Mirko DiDomenicantonio and Kathryn "Katie" Kelley want locals and tourists to love gelato in York as much as they do in Rome, Italy.   "I love gelato," DiDomenicantonio said. "All American tourists in Rome love gelato and eat it every day." Gelato is the Italian version of ice cream, with significantly le...

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Il Nord America impazzisce per il gelato artigianale grazie al contest itinerante più goloso del mondo.   Oltre 63.000 persone hanno partecipato al Gelato World Tour di maggio 2014 in Republic Square, DownTown Austin, e alla preview esclusiva a New York City durante il weekend dei James Beard Foundation Awards.   Read more   So...

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By Laura Shunk L'Arte del Gelato occupied a slot of the West Village for seven years, serving up cups of soft, pliable gelato festooned with tiny trowels to sizable crowds that packed the tiny address each warm night. But in April, the pair of proprietors of the business parted ways, and in June, Salvatore Potestio, the partner who maintained owne...

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by Hanna Raskin   By Elizabeth Hall's reckoning, there are 136 Italian restaurants in Charleston. Hall admits she's counting every restaurant with even a tenuous connection to tomato sauce, but her tally speaks to the local enthusiasm for Italian-style cooking.   "We don't have a Little Italy, but what we do have that I get really jaz...

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When the first heat waves of summer begin to role into town, Republic Square Park will keep you cool with a creamy dessert competition. The Gelato World Tour, a globe-hopping extravaganza of sweetness, has announced that Austin will be the only North American stop on its international tour.   From May 9-11, Austinites are invited to the even...

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Rita's Italian Ice, the world's largest Italian Ice concept with more than 600 stores, continues its impressive expansion into the fourth quarter, awarding four new area development deals for Washington, Idaho, Hawaii, and Ventura County and San Jose, California respectively. The company opened 2015 with a renewed focus on growth at home and abroad...

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by David Bienenstock   On a long, hot summer day precisely one hundred years ago, Caterina Di Cosmo grew nostalgic for her hometown in Italy. She decided to try beating the heat by recreating the granitas (granular blends of sugar, ice, and flavoring) she so fondly remembered from her childhood back in the old country.   Made not...

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by Sue Kidd   Gelato. Cannoli. Pignolata. Bignè. Panettone. Cannoncini. An entire vocabulary of Italian pastries and sweets will be new to South Sound bakery fans when Dolce Si Sicilian Bakery and Cafe opens in Point Ruston. The bakery and gelateria plans a late November opening, if all goes as planned.   It will be the only ba...

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