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Another Tryon business is expanding into a new space. A Taste of Olives & Grapes is moving to 10 N. Trade St., where The Tryon Bottle was located. Store manager Jessica Phillips said they plan to use the extra space for events and to offer pottery made by local and international potters. “The store really has an international flavor,” Phillips said...

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Calabro Cheese once - back in the 1980s - had a small retail cheese store as part of its overall operation. Well, the family has decided to bring the store back and it will be celebrating with a grand opening on March 19th. Calabro Cheese Corporation has been producing premium cheese since 1953. When the East Haven manufacturing plant opened in 198...

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During Il Calabrese Ristorante & Bar in Southlake’s twilight between lunch and dinner, Chef Luciano Salvadore began making pasta for the possible rush to come. He said the restaurant emphasizes its Italian fare, with food and talent from the country itself. Salvadore said the dining establishment is the product of a partnership between its majority...

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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...

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Wild chestnuts have been known to Man since the times of ancient Greece. Xenophon, Virgil, Apicius and Galen all exalted their nutritional properties and their flavor. However, it was the chef of Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoia, who invented this little gems of sweetness, marrons glacés, sometimes towards the end of the 16th century. Their recipe...

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A new bakery and Italian spot, offering pizza and more, has debuted in the neighborhood. The new addition to midtown Sacramento, called Gran Milan, is located at 1801 L St. This is Gran Milan's second location, with the first in the East Bay city of Richmond. The two founders, who first met in the 1990s, "set their sights on giving the U.S. the hea...

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Miami’s Argentine king of meats and emapanadas is taking on pizza — again. Graziano’s, which is well-known from Miami to Weston for its restaurants and specialty markets, has opened a pizza shop, Lucia Pizza, in South Miami. The pizzas are Neapolitan style, with a thin, crispy crust, and topped with ingredients from the Graziano’s markets. The pies...

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The Italian Garden opened Feb. 9 in downtown Ocean Springs and in the first month the new restaurant has already gained a large number of fans. Several people with whom The Mississippi Press spoke had eaten at The Italian Garden and the response from each was virtually the same: Great food, ample portions and reasonable prices. A tough combination...

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One of the great joys of Second Street in Long Beach’s Belmont Shore is how walking down any given block you move between the new and trendy and the old school and sedate, with the sporty and noisy in between. New and trendy runs to such hot spots as Saint & Second, Lasher’s Kitchen, Tavern on 2 and Roe. Old school, by contrast, is deeply Italian (...

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Fourteen years ago, Salvatore and Briana Cardone were living paycheck to paycheck when they won $40,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket. That could only mean one thing to the self-taught culinary couple. They could finally open the restaurant they'd been dreaming about since the day they met six years earlier. "One of the first questions Sal asked...

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