Italian Cuisine News

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While New Jersey is known for Italian restaurants and pizzerias , Englishtown's newest business, Naturale Cucina , offers a new twist on the traditional pizza pieA - it's organic! In fact, everything on Naturale Cucina's menu is homemade from natural and organic ingredients.

Luckily, we can all reap the rewards of his bravery, particularly now when artichokes are in season and easy to find in the grocery store produce section.

My wife Allison isn't a big fan of tomato sauce, so the fact that she loves the lasagna at Mamma Mia's in Carver says a lot.

Momma D's Casa di Pasta on the Route 1 Bypass in Portsmouth is moving to the site of the New Asia restaurant on Shattuck Way in Newington.

For co-chef-owner of Oenotri Restaurant in Napa Valley, Tyler Rodde , the concept is simple:A Southern Italian cooking technique with a farm-driven menu .

Moderately-priced and family-oriented, the full-service national chains serving are where hundreds of thousands, if not millions, get their primary experience with Italian-themed food.A With one exception, the largest chains, comprising over 1,600 individual restaurants, serve a fairly similar array of southern Italian-American dishes tweaked to ... (more)

"I'm one of the last restaurants alive that make their own pasta," said Giovanni Garelli, owner of Gio in Evanston.

The view from Southeast Portland's Lauro Kitchen, the future home of Duane Sorenson's new Italian restaurant, Ava Genes.

Another Italian dining option will soon be available in Midtown. Atlanta-based real estate investment and management firm Jamestown announced Tuesday the signing of modern-Italian restaurant La Tagliatella's lease at 'Shops at Metropolis.' Scheduled to open in late 2012, it will replace the closed Silk restaurant at the corner of Peachtree and 8 th ... (more)

No matter how much time I spend over a hot stockpot, I'm always open to learning a new soup technique or two.

For several weeks, a merry band of cooks and businessmen have been transforming the former site of Five Guys on Valley Road in Upper Montclair into an oasis of authentic Italian fare.

ROME: They twirled, they sniffed, they slurped, they chewed. The dozen housewives who gathered in a Rome hotel on a recent afternoon took their work terribly seriously, rating plates of pasta for chewiness, saltiness, gumminess or done-ness that perfect balance known as "al dente," or firm to the bite.

Every year, we comb the county, looking for the best San Diego has to offer, from favorite foods to eclectic finds to places to play.

Like thousands of Southern Californians over the long holiday weekend, I decided to fill up the gas tank and head out of town.

The dozen housewives who gathered in a Rome hotel on a recent afternoon took their work terribly seriously, rating plates of pasta for chewiness, saltiness, gumminess or done-ness - that perfect balance known as "al dente," or firm to the bite.

A For several weeks, a merry band of cooks and businessmen have been transforming the former site of Five Guys on Valley Road in Upper Montclair into an oasis of authentic Italian fare.

Perhaps the most telling thing about Paolo's Italian Restaurant is that its Culinary Institute of America-trained chef turned down a job at the Ritz in San Francisco to run this Northampton staple.

From behind her check-in desk at Rome international airport and between gritted teeth, Beatrice Falchini would resentfully wish happy holidaymakers a wonderful journey as they headed to departures.

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