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Giancarlo Palazzone grabbed a pastry bag Sunday and squeezed out little dabs of white cream onto a tray of deep-fried zeppole with cannoli-style filling. His fingers flew over the tray as he plunked a small black cherry atop each zeppole and then powdered them all with confectioners' sugar. These delicious pastries are variously baked or fried and...

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A new delivery-only restaurant is coming to Edwardsville and Glen Carbon. Wang Gang Asian Eats owner Ryan O’Day will be opening Primo’s Italian Garage in late April. The eatery will serve local customers and cater to St. Louis area customers. O’Day said if the delivery-only concept is successful, he may look into setting up shop in other surroundin...

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Monday, April 30 | 7 p.m. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall | 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh 15213. The History Center's Italian American Program is proud to be a marketing sponsor of Lidia Matticchio Bastianich's lecture and book signing. Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city turned Yugoslavian under Tito's communist...

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The future is fast casual, at least for a specific segment of the restaurant world. This style of restaurant relies on a front counter with a structure of build-your-own entrees. It took off first at Chipotle, got healthier at Sweetgreen, and is now popping up in fresh concepts all over South Jersey including local options honeygrow and Oki Maki. N...

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Ciao from Rome, welcome to the #101 magazine of We the Italians! We began this 2018 by celebrating our 100Th magazine, and our new book, the 2017 Yearbook of We the Italians. Our friends at Community, the Rai Italia tv show dedicated to the Italians abroad, were so kind to invite me to talk about this. For those interested to watch it, the episode...

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Chicken breast rolls are a perfect dish for a family dinner any day of the week. The preparation is simple: lay a slice of chicken breast flat and place sliced ham and sage leaves on it, then just roll them up and cut in half, making beautiful and tasty rolls. Sage is a common ingredient in the Italian culinary tradition, used for example, in roast...

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In Europe, the tradition of eating pork meat stretches far back into antiquity, as pigs were an animal that was easy to rear in a domestic environment, they were rich in fat and delicious meats and reproduced quickly. In the second half of the nineteenth century, some pig bones excavated from archaeological sites in the Po Valley corroborated the h...

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Not in time for Wilton’s annual spring restaurant week, Zio Italian Kitchen Pizzeria & Bar is preparing to open at 1 Danbury Road in space that was previously a John’s Best Pizza restaurant and lounge that closed in February. The new restaurant takes its name for the Italian word for “uncle” in reference to Frank Sandolo, who has ran the John’s Bes...

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Sinatra's, the classic Italian-American restaurant on Kenmore Avenue, will move to its new building across the street following a charity auction on March 19. The new Sinatra's at 945 Kenmore Ave., Tonawanda, can hold twice as many people for dinner, said manager David Ortolano. New features will include gluten-free pasta, a broader selection of It...

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The restaurant situation on Seventh Street has been in flux lately. The most recent change to the cluster of eateries is a new Italian restaurant serving mostly old-school dishes. Pubblico Italian Eatery bakes pizza and crafts pasta in-house. The menu, too, will feature new-age dishes like cauliflower steak over polenta, and includes many gluten-fr...

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