The Best Italian & Italian-American Recipes on the Internet
I wanted to take a picture of the pineapple arch, an Italian welcome sign at the start of the downtown side of Federal Hill’s Atwells Avenue. It was too blustery so we walked to Venda Ravioli to have an espresso instead. Venda’s is a food …
My interview with KUSP’s Rick Kleffel airs this Sunday from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. High Quality Cisco 600-460 Tests A female soldier onions and the same small black shoes or Gaga Gaba crisp 600-460 Tests band ring then step by step but it is definitely …
3 weeks to the day since the heavily damaged North Beach Song of Pulcinella mural was rescued from the dumpster and he’s back in his all his glory. Today we gathered at Emerald Tablet where the artist Vranas restored his mural. We had to position …
Naples as you may have realized by now is one of my favorite cities in all of Italia. My Italian roots are in Campania and Napoli is the region’s capital. I’ve felt as if I belonged there since I first visited. I love the food, …
Here’s a really simple recipe to capture the bell pepper bounty in a jar for your winter pantry. Just slice the peppers into strips, make the vinegar brine and put everything in a jar. Pickled peppers, or “vinegar peppers” as my family calls them, keep in …
It’s just been 2 weeks since we saved the severely damaged Song of Pulcinella mural and rolled it across Columbus Avenue to a safe haven. It’s been a week since I brought the San Francesco statue to Emerald Tablet gallery to oversee the restoration. The …
This was posted by an Italian I presume. insegnagli tu gianni a mangiare a questi americani!!! Google Translate reads this as gianni teach you to eat these Americans! I think this is closer Gianni teaches Americans to eat!!! I had to ask my friends if this was good or …
I had some Cioppino left over. I picked out the crab meat and we ate pasta the next day. Capellini are the perfect pasta to carry the crab sauce. The sauce is sweet from the crab and the tomato. I cook my capellini just until …
It’s just been 2 weeks since we saved the severely damaged Song of Pulcinella restoration and rolled it across Columbus Avenue to a safe haven. It’s been a week since I brought the San Francesco statue to Emerald Tablet gallery to oversee the restoration. …
Cioppino has been on my mind lately. Some of my fans asked me to share my recipe so I just had to make it today. Cioppino is a San Francisco original created by the Italians on Fisherman’s Wharf in the 1800s. The local story is …
Rhode Island friends are in town and we we’re making 2 classic Italian-American pasta dishes. Carol brought a cavati pasta machine all the way from Little Rhody. I’ve never seen this contraption and I was anxious to try it out. You say cavati, I say …
Lidia Bastianich inspires me. She’s been a mentor for a long time. I have 6 of her cookbooks and I read them often. Lidia’s Italy has been a PBS blockbuster cooking show for years. I’ve watched them all but my absolute favorite is the one …
Quite a week for the Village. Two great Chronicle restaurant reviews and USA Today named a North Beach pizzeria the best in the country. North Beach is on fire! Gigi’s Sotto Mare on Green is one of the last remaining traditional Italian-American restaurants. Gigi’s first …
This is a city of architectural genius that greatly influenced American buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries–the Chicago School, the Prairie School and the giants–Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Adler, Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Goldberg. The first skyscraper was built in Chicago …
NYC’s Real Little Italy
I’m interested in the health of Italian-American communities across the country so I travelled from Manhattan to the outer borough of the Bronx to check out a neighborhood I’ve heard about for a long time but never visited. Arthur Avenue is a vibrant Italian community …