Italian Film Festival sponsored by La Comunità degli Italiani - St Louis
The Italian Film Festival in St Louis this year will bring you on a cinematic and culinary tour of Italy. The festival begins April 6th and lasts for four weekends ending on April 28th. This is the fourteenth edition of the festival, and this year, being the "The Year of Italian Food", as announced by the Italian Ministries of Culture and Agricultu...
Balistreri Vineyards Livens Up Industrial Northeast Denver
As your GPS directs you into industrial northeast Denver, you’re going to wonder if there’s really a winery out here. Don’t turn back. Balistreri Vineyards, at 1946 East 66th Avenue, is an exceptional, delightful, delicious place to spend the afternoon. And there’s a reason that the winery is nestled among warehouses, greenhouses and wastewater and...
D'Italia is one of the top online Italian specialty food retailers in the country
From the outside, it's a typical warehouse. But on the inside, you'll find some of the best ingredients from Italy to ever hit your tongue. "Kinda a hidden gem. A lot of people don't realize this premier Italian food specialty business is here in the heart of The Grove in St. Louis," said Vince Di Piazza. D'Italia Fine Italian Imports owner has tes...
Appetites: Italian-American cuisine is back, here's where to find it
It's one of the hottest emerging new cuisines in Minnesota, but many already consider a classic. Italian-American food. That's according to Appetites regular, James Norton, the editor of The Heavy Table — the online journal of food and drink. Italian cuisine developed a somewhat deserved bad reputation over the past few decades, Norton said. "On th...
Review: Tavernetta a Fine Addition to the Frasca Family
If Colorado has culinary royalty, Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, the guys behind Frasca Food and Wine, are surely wearing crowns. Pick a big award and they’ve either won it or are in the running for it. But previous honors don’t make the act of opening another restaurant any easier, and Tavernetta, which they launched last fall at U...
Franco Battiato: tra musica e poesia
Cari Amici della Comunita' degli Italiani - St Louis, finalmente ci riuniamo a Pan d’Olive per la prima volta quest’anno avendo rimpiazzato la nostra riunione di Febbraio con il riuscitissimo Carnevale Veneziano della, e per la, Comunità degli Italiani - St. Louis, al ristorante Cielo con Chef Gian Nicola Colucci.Questo 4 aprile siamo felici di pre...
A promised park fails to materialize in downtown St. Paul. What happened?
On a July day in 1908, 17-year-old Carmine Thomas Simplegio Pitera set sail for America, joining his brothers and a wave of Italian immigrants. His arrival in a new country called for a new name, at least in the eyes of immigration officials at Ellis Island: Carl Pedro. Pedro started a small shoe-repair shop that grew with time, evolving into a dow...
Hundreds Turn Out For Small-Town Italian Dinner
Hundreds of Four-Staters came out to small-town Scammon, Kansas this afternoon to get some authentic Italian food. Saint Bridget's Church held its annual Italian dinner. For $15 folks could get spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, polenta and much more. All the money raised from the dinner will go towards the church's charity programs and general fund...
At Caffetteria in Prairie Village, Jo Marie Scaglia looks to recreate community feel of Sunday dinners growing up
When Jo Marie Scaglia was growing up in Kansas City, her mom would cook up a veritable feast every Sunday at 3 p.m., setting out dishes of delicious, straightforward food for the taking. “Everyone was invited — family, friends, neighbors, whoever,” Scaglia recalls. “Even after I moved out my friends would still be showing up at the house Sunday aft...
Cafe Piazza's artwork wows, but the pizza steals the show
At Cafe Piazza, you must remind yourself to glance at your food. This isn’t a slight on the pizza at this Benton Park restaurant, but the pizza here looks like pizza, while the ceiling is a tourist-board fever dream. A mural of St. Louis history, inspired by both the Sistine Chapel and street art and rendered in vibrant spray paint, stretches acros...
Downtown Denver Italian Restaurants Seamlessly Combine Fine Dining, Impeccable Service, and Authentic Cuisine
Two of the best places to eat in Denver are the Venice Ristorante & Wine Bar Italian restaurants located in Downtown Denver and Greenwood Village. Greenwood Village is a popular choice for visitors and employees in the DTC, or Denver Tech Center. Drawing on his early experience in some of the finest restaurants in Italy, owner Alessandro Carollo co...
Baseball, Alex Liddi e Marten Gasparini insieme in campo con i Kansas City Royals. Pagina storica per l’Italia
Nottata storica per il baseball italiano. Due giocatori azzurri hanno calcato il diamante americano insieme. È successo nel match di Cactus League, torneo di preparazione alla stagione della Major League che si tiene in Arizona, tra i Kansas City Royals e i Texas Rangers. I due protagonisti sono Alex Liddi e Marten Gasparini. Liddi, terza base di 2...