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This year marks the eighth annual CincItalia at Harvest Home Park in Cheviot. With the 2017 festival comes new food and new vendors, most notably Ohio’s own Corbo’s Bakery. Family-run Corbo’s Bakery first opened in 1948 in Cleveland’s Little Italy. The bakery is best known for its cassata cake: an Italian sponge cake with homemade custard, fresh st...

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Italy might not be the first country that comes to mind when people think about foreign investment in Cincinnati. But 18 Italian companies that make everything from sheet metal to motors to Mentos -- the freshmaker! -- would beg to disagree. Armando Varricchio, Italy's ambassador to the United States, visited Wednesday to celebrate his country's gr...

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Cincinnati pizza mogul Donald R. "Buddy" LaRosa can add another accolade to his 63-year career: a street named after him. City council Wednesday renamed Over-the-Rhine's West Elder Street near Findlay Market  "Buddy LaRosa Way" in honor of the founder of LaRosa's Pizzeria. "I'm proud," LaRosa said during the presentation, "but I didn't do it alone....

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The Frommeyer kids – one girl, five boys – loved Sundays when they were growing up. That was the day for dinner at their grandparents, the Bonavitas, who lived on the West Side. "You'd have to make a couple of stops up and down the street first," said Matt Frommeyer. "We'd get something at Uncle Lou's and Uncle Joe's and then stop at Aunt Annie's,...

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A Cincinnati culinary tradition celebrated more than a century of food and fellowship. For 105 years, the Sons of Italy have hosted the Sacred Heart Church Italian Dinner. That tradition, which started in 1911, continued Saturday.   Jerry Vianello, a retired Marine colonel, has helped cook and host the dinner for almost a quarter of a centur...

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by Polly Campbell The owners of A Tavola, the wood-fired pizza restaurants in Over-the-Rhine and Madeira, are opening a new concept. Their new place will also specialize in pizza, but with a different approach. Taglio, coming to Columbia Tusculum, will focus on delivering New York style pizza, along with beer and wine. They hope to open on Feb. 7....

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Between Italian culture, live music, a wine garden and meatballs with marinara, there are plenty of reasons to love the Cincinnati Italian Festival.   The fifth annual CincItalia begins Friday, May 16 at Harvest Home Park, presented by St. Catharine of Siena Parish and School. In celebration, the organizers brainstormed the top five reasons...

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Festival season is almost here for Catholic parishes throughout Greater Cincinnati and St. Catharine of Siena is kicking things off with its annual CincItalia festival.   The Westwood parish presents its seventh annual CincItalia, the Cincinnati Italian Festival, Friday, May 13, through Sunday, May 15, at Harvest Home Park, 3961 North Bend R...

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by Andy Brownfield   One of Brooklyn's highest-rated pizzerias, Paulie Gee's in Greenpoint, continues its franchise plans and has a new destination in mind — Cincinnati. And it's all because of a local Ohio entrepreneur, who hails from the East Coast. " I know it sounds crazy, but I really became enamored with pizzerias that used wood-fired...

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The warm weather played a part in another huge turnout for the annual Sacred Heart Church ravioli dinner. Lines started forming before 4 a.m. Sunday in Camp Washington for the 103rd edition of the Italian feast and fundraiser. The event didn't begin until 10 a.m.   Over the course of the day, congregants and community members alike paid $12...

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